On September 7, 1371, a bloody battle took place between the Ottoman hordes and the forces of the Balkan coalition, including the Albanian princes. In the defeat of the Balkan allies, among the fallen was Aleksandër Komnen Arseni, lord of Vlora and Kanina.

On September 7, 1457, the Battle of Albulena or Uji Bardhë took place near Laçi, between Skanderbeg’s warriors and the Turkish army, Isa Bey Evrenozi and Hamza Kastrioti. Skanderbeg, applying the tactic of retreating, destroying the Turkish army.

On September 7, 1814, Francesk Anton Santori, poet, writer, playwright from Arbëria, was born in Saint Catherine of Cosenza. He completed his studies at the religious college. He wrote lyrical, secular poems, poems, dramas, novels. At a young age, he published his first collection of poems “Albanian Singer”.

On September 7, 1910, Aleks Buda, historian, professor, member of the Academy of Sciences and its Chairman from its creation until the end of his life, was born in Elbasan. After studying in Austria, he worked as a teacher in secondary schools in Tirana and Korça. Aleks Buda was the co-author and responsible editor of the History of Albania text and the author of several studies on different periods of Albania’s history. He died in Tirana on July 3, 1993.

Pashko Gjeçi was born in Shkodra on September 7, 1918. He graduated from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Rome. He was a student of Professor Ernest Koliq and associating with him would cost him 5 years in prison in his homeland. On July 15, 1942, he graduated with a doctorate in literature. The well-known translator, Pashko Gjeçi, has brought masterpieces of world literature into Albanian, such as Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy or the miracles of ancient Greece. He passed away on January 20, 2010, at the age of 92.

On September 7, 1990, the Albanian Parliament of Kosovo approved in Kaçanik, the Constitution declaring Kosovo a Republic.

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