Konstantinos Skenderis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Σκενδέρης, 1864-1959) was a

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journalist and author. He was born in

Moscopole Moscopole or Voskopoja ( sq, Voskopojë; rup, Moscopole, with several other variants; el, Μοσχόπολις, Moschopolis) is a village in Korçë County in southeastern Albania. During the 18th century, it was the cultural and commercial ...

, modern southeast

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, when the city was under Ottoman rule. He studied at the

Phanar Greek Orthodox College Phanar Greek Orthodox College or Phanar Roman Orthodox Lyceum ( tr, Özel Fener Rum Lisesi), known in Greek as the Great School of the Nation and Patriarchal Academy of Constantinople ( el, Μεγάλη του Γένους Σχολή, ''Megáli t ...

. In 1891 he moved to

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. From 1910 he published there the newspaper named ''O Pelasgos'' ( el, Ο Πελασγός The Pelasgian). When his homeland came under Greek administration (Oct. 1914 – Sept. 1916), Skenderis got elected as member of the

Greek Parliament The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule of the Hellenes, label=none), also known as the Parliament of the Hel ...

for the Korytsa Prefecture in the following elections (December 1915). From 1916 he lived in Athens where he continued to publish his newspaper until 1940.M. V. Sakellariou
''Epirus, 4000 years of Greek history and civilization''.
Ekdotikē Athēnōn, 1997. , p. 363.

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Ιστορία της αρχαίας και συγχρόνου Μοσχοπόλεως
[History of

.] K. Skenderis. (Greek) *Issues of 'Pelasgos

(Greek) Northern Epirus independence activists Greek journalists Greek MPs 1915–1917 Greek writers Year of death missing Year of birth missing People from Moscopole {{Greece-journalist-stub