Dom Nikoll Kaçorri (21 February 1862 – 29 May 1917), was a prominent figure of the National Renaissance of Albania. A signatory of the

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, Dom Kaçorri served as

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of the

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, after the independence.

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He was born in 1862 in the village of Krejë,

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(now in Dibër municipality). He trained for the priesthood in Troshan near

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and studied theology in

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, being ordained as a Catholic priest. On his return to

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in 1895, he began work as a parish priest in

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. In the early years of the twentieth century, Kaçorri was increasingly involved in the nationalist movement, and was one of the organisers of an armed uprising in

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and

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in 1905–07. In 1906, as a man of the cloth, he was made protonotary apostolic, and later in life bore the ecclesiastical title of vice general. In 1907, Kaçorri was a member of the nationalist ''Vllaznia'' (Brotherhood) society in Durrës and co-founded the ''Bashkimi'' (Unity) society in 1909. In November 1908, he took part in the

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, which was held to decide on an Albanian alphabet. In 1910, during an uprising in Kurbin in which he was involved, he was arrested by the Ottoman authorities for sedition and was sentenced four years in prison, though the sentence was soon reduced to 13 months. In November 1912 Kaçorri voluntarily accompanied

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on his way to Albania and was present at the declaration of Albanian independence in

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, as a representative of Durrës. There, he was made deputy prime minister in the first provisional government, but resigned in March 1913 after marked difference with Qemali. Kaçorri left Albania at the end of the 1913, and met Prince Wied in

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in January 1914. On 28 February 1914, he was in

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with an Albanian deputation that was received by the Austrian emperor at

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. He was to spend the rest of his life in Vienna. In April 1917, though increasingly ravaged by

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, he took part in another Albanian deputation to pay homage to the emperor in Vienna, but died a month later at the Fürth sanatorium. He was buried on 2 June 1917 at the

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. Nikollë Kaçorri's remains were repatriated from Vienna to

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almost a century later, on 9 February 2011.

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