Ilias
bej Vrioni (1 January 1882 – 12 March 1932) was an
Albanian
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politician and landowner. He was one of the signatories of the
Albanian Declaration of Independence
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and served as
Prime Minister of Albania
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three times.
Biography
Ilias Vrioni was born in 1882 in
Berat, in the
Janina Vilayet of the
Ottoman Empire
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to
Mehmet Ali Pasha
Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha, also known as Muhammad Ali of Egypt and the Sudan ( sq, Mehmet Ali Pasha, ar, محمد علي باشا, ; ota, محمد علی پاشا المسعود بن آغا; ; 4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849), was ...
of the
Vrioni family
The Vrioni family ( Ottoman Turkish: ''Viryon Zâdeler'') is one of the great Albanian aristocratic families and one of the biggest landowners of Albania, otherwise known as "Konaqe" or "Oxhaqe", among which the most important are: Vrioni of Berat ...
and Hysnije Vokopola of the Vokopola family.
His household had great
chifliks in the surroundings of
Berat,
Fier, and in the
Myzeqe plain. His father was a high dignitary of the administration of the Ottoman Empire and collaborator of
Abdyl Frashëri
Abdyl Dume bey Frashëri ( tr, Fraşerli Abdül Bey; 1 June 1839 – 23 October 1892) was an Ottoman Albanian civil servant, politician during the First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire, and one of the first Albanian political ideologues ...
at the time of the
Congress of Berlin,
his mother came from a local landowning family that had their chifliks in the surroundings of
Vokopolë
Ferid Vokopola (18 August 1887 – 28 June 1969) was an Albanian politician, theologist, translator and a delegate of Lushnjë in the Assembly of Vlora held on 28 November 1912, and one of the 40 signatories of the Albanian Declaration of In ...
.
He was one of the signatories of the
Albanian Declaration of Independence
The Albanian Declaration of Independence ( Albanian: ''Deklarata e Pavarësisë'') was the declaration of independence of Albania from the Ottoman Empire. Independent Albania was proclaimed in Vlorë on 28 November 1912. Six days later the Assem ...
in 1912. He served three times as Prime Minister and five times as
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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. He died in Paris in 1932, while serving his second mandate as the Plenipotentiary Minister of the Kingdom of Albania to Paris and London.
He was decorated in 1920s with the order of ''
Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur
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'' of the
French Republic
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.
Political Activity
* Prime Minister of Albania: 19 November 1920 – 1 July 1921
* Prime Minister of Albania: 11 July 1921 – 16 October 1921
*
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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of Albania: 30 Mars 1924 – 27 May 1924
* Prime Minister of Albania and
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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: 24 December 1924 – 5 January 1925
*
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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of Albania: 12 February 1927 – 21 October 1927
*
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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of Albania and Vice-
Minister of Justice: 26 October 1927 – 21 May 1928
*
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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of Albania: 11 May 1928 – 1 September 1928
*
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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of Albania: 5 September 1928 – 13 January 1929
* Plenipotentiary Minister of Albania in Paris and London: 1925 – 1926
* Plenipotentiary Minister of Albania in Paris and London: 1929 – 1932
See also
*
Omar Pasha Vrioni II
Omer Pasha Vrioni II (1839–1928), also referred as Ymer or Omar, was an Albanian ruler from one of the most powerful Albanian families of the 19th century. He founded the city of Fier.
Biography
Omer Pasha was a member of the Vrioni landownin ...
*
Sami Bey Vrioni
References
See also
*
History of Albania
*
List of prime ministers of Albania
The Prime Minister of Albania ( sq, Kryeministri i Shqipërisë), officially styled Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania ( sq, Kryeministri i Republikës së Shqipërisë), is the head of government of the Republic of Albania and the mos ...
1882 births
1932 deaths
People from Berat
People from Janina vilayet
Albanian Sunni Muslims
Government ministers of Albania
Prime Ministers of Albania
Signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
Civil servants from the Ottoman Empire
Ilias
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* Profitis Ilias (disambiguat ...
Ambassadors of Albania to France
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Mekteb-i Mülkiye alumni
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