The Elderly Assembly ( sq, Pleqënia) was a
senate
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of
Albania
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which independence was declared on 28 November 1912 in
Vlorë
Vlorë ( , ; sq-definite, Vlora) is the third most populous city of the Republic of Albania and seat of Vlorë County and Vlorë Municipality. Located in southwestern Albania, Vlorë sprawls on the Bay of Vlorë and is surrounded by the foothi ...
(then
Ottoman Empire
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, today
Republic of Albania
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). The senate was established on the 4 December 1912 by the
Assembly of Vlorë
The Assembly of Vlorë ( sq, Kuvendi i Vlorës) was an Albanian assembly constituted during the All-Albanian Congress in Vlorë, on November 28, 1912.
Background
The All-Albanian Congress or ''Albanian National Congress'' or ''Albanian Ind ...
. It was composed of 18 members of the assembly and had advisory role to the
government of Albania
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.
All provinces of the independent Albania were represented by its members in the senate:
*
Kosovo
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:
Salih Gjuka Salih Gjuka (1876-1925) was an Albanian teacher and activist of the Albanian National Awakening. The first teacher of Albanian in the Ottoman gymnasium of Uskub, in 1912 he became one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence ...
,
Bedri Pejani
Bedri Pejani (or Bedri bej Ipeku; 10 October 1885 – 6 July 1946) was 20th century Albanian politician. During World War II, he was one of the founders of the Second League of Prizren.
Biography
Pejani was born in the city of İpek (now Pe ...
,
Hajdin bej Draga,
*
Monastir:
Vehbi Dibra
Abdyl Aziz Vehbi Agolli mostly known as Haxhi Vehbi Dibra (12 March 1867 – 24 March 1937) was an Albanian mufti, theologian, politician and a delegate of Dibër at the Albanian Declaration of Independence. He was elected as chairman of th ...
*
Shkodër
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:
Hajredin bej Cakrani
Hajredin Cakrani (1860 – 1940) was a 19th-century Albanian politician. He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and a member of the senate of the Independent Albania
Independent Albania ( sq, Shqipëria e Pav ...
,
Shefqet bej Daiu,
Dervish Biçaku
Dervish Biçaku (1874-1952) was an Albanian landowner, and one of the delegates of Albanian Declaration of Independence."History of Albanian People" Albanian Academy of Science.
He was born in Elbasan, today's Albania in a landowners family, with ...
,
Xhelal bej Koprencka,
Mustafa Merlika-Kruja
Mustafa Merlika-Kruja (March 15, 1887, Akçahisar, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Krujë, Albania) – December 27, 1958, Niagara Falls, New York) was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence. He served as Prime Minister ...
,
Murat bej Toptani
Murad bej Toptani (13 July 1867 – 11 February 1918) was an Albanian poet, artist and activist of the Albanian National Awakening.
Along with his relative Abdi Toptani he became one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independ ...
,
*
Janina
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:
Babë Dud Karbunara
Babë Dud Karbunara (22 April 1842 – 19 December 1917), born Jorgji Karbunara was an Albanian teacher and politician. He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence."History of Albanian People" Albanian Academy of ...
,
Veli Këlcyra
Veli Këlcyra, usually referred as Veli Bey Këlcyra, was an Albanian influential ''bey'' and one of the delegates during the Albanian Declaration of Independence.
Veli Këlcyra came from the well known bey family of Këlcyrë, the same family of ...
,
Kristo Meksi
Kristo Meksi (1849–1931) was an Albanians, Albanian politician of the early 20th century. He was one of the delegates of Albanian Declaration of Independence and also one of the first Albanian diplomats.
Early life
Born in Labovë in 1849, he ...
,
Eqerem bej Vlora
Eqrem Bey Vlora (1 December 1885 – 30 March 1964) was an Albanian lord, politician, writer, and one of the delegates to the Assembly of Vlorë, which proclaimed the Albanian Declaration of Independence on November 28, 1912. He is described as ...
,
Ilias Bey Vrioni
Ilias bej Vrioni (1 January 1882 – 12 March 1932) was an Albanian politician and landowner. He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and served as Prime Minister of Albania three times.
Biography
Ilias Vri ...
,
Sami Bey Vrioni
Sami Bey Vrioni (1876–1947) was an Albanian politician, diplomat, and a delegate at the Assembly of Vlora which declared the Albanian Declaration of Independence. He was a respected and powerful landowner in the Fier region of Albania.
Biograp ...
,
* Albanian colony of Bucharest:
Dhimitër Zografi
Dhimitër Zografi (1878–1945) was one of the signatories of Albanian Declaration of Independence.
Early life and career
Zografi was born in Korçë, in the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire (present-day Albania) in 1878. At the end of th ...
,
Dhimitër Berati Dhimitër is the Albanian variant of the Greek name ''Demetrios.'' It may refer to:
*Dhimitër Progoni ( fl. 1208–1216), Albanian ruler
*Dhimitër Jonima
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References
Albanian Declaration of Independence
Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...
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