Aristidh Ruçi (11 March 1875 – 11 April 1950) was one of the signatories of
Albanian Declaration of Independence
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in 1912. He campaigned for the spread of education in Southern Albania and was a founder of the nationalist
Labëria Club.
He was born in
Sheper,
Zagori
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region near
Gjirokastër
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, . Ruci was an active participant in the
Battle of Vlora.
Late in life, Ruci served as the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Vlorë and member of the newly created Board of the
Bank of Albania
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.
On December 28, 2009, Ruci and several other notable people from
Vlorë
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were honoured at a ceremony at the
Petro Marko
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theatre by the district of Vlorë.
Aristidh Ruci died in 1950 in
Vlorë
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in a communist prison. There was neither an obituary nor a funeral service in his honor.
References
Sources
"History of Albanian People" Albanian Academy of Science.
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19th-century Albanian politicians
20th-century Albanian politicians
1950 deaths
1875 births
People from Libohovë
Signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
Albanians from the Ottoman Empire
Eastern Orthodox Christians from Albania
People from Janina vilayet
People from Vlorë
Albanian people who died in prison custody
Prisoners who died in Albanian detention
All-Albanian Congress delegates