On September 21, 1401, the Holy See appointed the Albanian clergy Eugjen Suma as apostolic nuncio in Albania. He was practically the second ambassador of the Vatican in the Albanian countries, that is, the ambassador of Scanderbeg.

On September 21, 1879, the leaders of Hot and Gruda sent a protest to the Great Powers. They opposed the handing over of Albanian lands to Montenegro, and expressed their determination to protect them at any cost.

The parliamentary decree on the obligation of citizens to learn writing and singing was published in the Albanian newspaper on September 21, 1949. This act marked the second stage of the great national action for the eradication of illiteracy in Albania.

On September 21, 1958, one of the most special and important units of the Albanian Naval Forces – the Submarine Unit – began its activity. In the composition of the Submarine Unit, there were 4 u-boats of Russian production.

On September 21, 2000, the founder of the modern Albanian novel, Sterjo Spase, was posthumously awarded the High Order “Naim Frasheri”.

 On October 21, 1919, Albanian politician Xhelal Koprencka, one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence passed away. He was born in Koprencka of Skrapar in 1876. He was active in the war for national liberation, especially with one of his relatives, Ali Koprencka. Both were part of the secret committee “For the freedom of Albania”, exercising their patriotic activity in Korça and Manastir, in the club of the Albanians there. Xhelal Koprencka took care of the first secular schools in Albanian, opened in Korça, that of girls and boys. He was a member of patriotic societies abroad. As a delegate of Skrapar, he participates in the Vlora Assembly of November 1912 which declared national independence and signs the document of independence with the initials “Xhelal Ko”. In 1918, he participated in the Congress of Durrës too, as a delegate from Skrapar. Pursued by anti-national elements, Koprencka was treacherously murdered in 1919.

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