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Marin Beçikemi. Marino Becichemo or Marin Beçikemi (c. 1468 – 1526) was an Albanian scholar and orator who was a prominent humanist in the cities of Brescia and later Padua in the Republic of Venice in the early 16th century. He maintained a humanist school and was a professor in the University of Padua.
In 1503, Marin Becikemi wrote and published a panegyric about the siege, in praise of the Republic of Venice. In 1504, Marin Barleti's The Siege of Shkodra (De obsidione Scodrensi) was published in Venice. It is a firsthand account the siege presented to the Venetian Senate.
The Siege of Shkodra is a book written by a Shkodran priest, Marin Barleti (also known as Marinus Barletius), about the Ottoman siege of Shkodra in 1478, led personally by Mehmed II, and about the joint resistance of the Albanians and the Venetians. [1] The book also discusses the Ottoman siege of Shkodra in 1474.
The Stara Zagora massacre (Bulgarian: Старозагорско клане) was the mass murder of approx. 14,000 civilian Bulgarians, accompanied by the burning and complete destruction of the City of Stara Zagora on 31 July–2 August [O.S. 19–21 July] 1877, committed by regular Ottoman troops commanded by Süleyman Hüsnü Pasha, during the eponymous battle of the Russo-Turkish War (1877 ...
Erkand Qerimaj, world champion of weightlifting. Gjergj Radovani, Bishop of Shkodër and later Archbishop of Bar. Perlat Rexhepi, communist, People's Hero of Albania. Filip Shiroka, renaissance poet. Mehmet Shpendi, guerrilla fighter. Hodo Sokoli, leader of the League of Prizren. Ramadan Sokoli, ethnomusicologist.
Gregory of Durrës (Albanian: Gregori i Durrësit; Grigor Konstantinidhi; Greek: Γρηγόριος ο Δυρραχίου, romanized: Grêgorios ho Dyrrakhíu; Latin: Gregorius Dyrrhachii; Gregory of Dyrrachium) (or Gregory the Printer) (c. 1701–1772) was an Albanian scholar, printer, typographer, and teacher, and an Eastern Orthodox Christian monk and cleric of Ottoman Albania who is ...
Bernardino Vitali. Printers mark of Bernardino Vitalibus (BV). Woodcut from Venetias Poema, 1521. Bernardino Vitali was an Albanian printer and publisher, active in Venice from 1494 to 1539. His printing workshop published more than 200 works of Venetian humanists in the first half of the 16th century. [1]
Filip Noga (1867/1868–1917) – politician; Minister of Finance of the country for four months in 1914; also known as Philippe Nogga. Gramoz Pashko (1955–2006) – economist and politician. Ferit Vokopola (1887–1969) Vrioni family – one of the great aristocratic and biggest landowner families of Albania.