November 27, 1443 is regarded as the day when Albanian Princedoms uprising led by Skanderbeg against the Ottomans began.

At the plenary meeting of the Albanian League of Prizren that was held on November 27, 1878, a memorandum was approved that dealt with the issue of Albania’s autonomy. There it was requested that all the Albanian provinces be united in one administrative unit.

Albanian patriots in Kavaja, Lushnja and Peqin on November 27, 1912 raised the flag of Scanderbeg and declared independence from the five-century Ottoman conquest.

On November 27, 1912, Faik Konica together with Fan Noli, as a delegate of “Vatra”, Patriotic Albanian Association in the US, went to London to defend the issue of Albania at the Conference of Ambassadors, which was to decide the borders of the new state.

Albanian lawyers gathered in Vlora on November 27, 1913 formed the Law Association under the name “Light” for the creation and support of the Albanian legal system as a tool for the development of the nation on a legal basis.

 On November 27, 1927, the Pact of Tirana between Albania and Italy was signed.

On November 27, 1946, the construction of the Kukës-Peshkopi ‘Road of the Youth’ with a length of 65.4 km was completed. 5000 young people from all over Albania worked for its construction.

On November 27, 1953, the Opera and Ballet Theater was established in Tirana. It was promoted with the first performance “Rusallka” by the Russian composer Dragomiski.

On November 27, 1968, thousands of demonstrators in Prishtina with the national flag in hand demanded the Constitution amending, Self-determination, the Republic of Kosova, the University, their rights to education, to culture, to the national flag, and to the revision and change of the political status of Kosova.

On November 27, 1972, Viktor Eftimiu, a Romanian writer of Albanian origins, passed away. Eftimiu, a prominent personality of Romanian and world culture, immigrated with his family from Boboshtica at the age of 9 to Bucharest, Romania. Among his works, the novels “The Man Who Saw Death with His Eyes”, “Prometheus” and “Dr. Faust” stand out. In the beginning of the 1920s, he was the chairman of a patriotic association, which worked for the protection of Albania’s rights as an independent state.

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