-At the beginning of August 1691, the Albanian iconographer painter David Selenica was born. It represents the last brilliance of the post-Byzantine painting of Albania and the Balkans. He is the author of over 1000 paintings and icons in the Church of Saint Nicolas in Voskopoja. Some of his works are kept in the Museum of Medieval Art in Korça and in the National Museum in Tirana.

-On August 11, 1789, Illuminist Teodor Kavalioti, the head of the New Academy of Voskopoja, passed away. He was born in Voskopoja in 1718. He was educated in Janina (Ioannina) and after returning to his hometown, he was appointed teacher and director of the high school that in 1750 was named “New Academy”.

-On August 11, 1860, the first Albanian set-designer, Kol Idromeno, painter, photographer and architect was born in Shkodër. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Italy. Upon returning to his homeland, he made his first cinematographic show in 1912. He was among the initiators of the First Collective Art Exhibition in Shkodër in 1923. He contributed to the urban planning of Shkodër, too. Idromeno is the founder of the Albanian school of realistic painting. He passed away in his home city in 1939.

-On August 11, 1912, since the Ottoman Government delayed the response to the 14 demands of the Albanians. By unilaterally violating the agreement, the Albanian insurgents, under the leadership of Isa Boietini, Bajram Curri, Hasan Pristina, took Skopje as a response.

-On August 11, 1924, the Albanian government of Fan Noli asked the Council of the League of Nations that the Greek government loyally fulfill the pledge it had taken at the Lausanne Conference to stop mistreatments of the Albanians in Greece.

-In August 1929, the patriot Loni Ligori passed away in Durrës. He was born in Korça in 1871. As a young man he immigrated to Egypt where he was educated. He was part of the Patriotic Movement of the Albanian Colony there alongside with Çajupi and Shiroka. He created poetry and brought Kornei’s tragedy “Sid” into Albanian in 1927.

-On August 11, 1958, the volleyball player, Merited Master of Sports, Ela Tase, was born in Tirana. At the age of 10, he played volleyball for the first time. In the first international match in 1978 in the Balkan Volleyball Championship in Romania, she was declared the best volleyball player in the Balkans for the first time. This was followed by the same appreciation in Bulgaria in 1982, and for the third time in Tirana in 1988. She was captain of the Dinamo women volleyball team, Merited Master of Sports at the age of 20. With the many victories and medals, she has been called the “volleyball player of the 20th century”.

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