The decision of July 29, 1913 of the London Conference of Ambassadors declared Albania an independent princedom, neutral and under the control of the Great Powers for a period of 10 years. Decision was made to give Kosova to Serbia; Greece annexed the districts of Follorina and Kosturi together with Çamëria. While Montenegro was given Plava, Gucia, Hoti, and Gruda.

On July 29, 1925, the first issue of the newspaper “Liria Kombëtare” /The National Freedom/ was published in Geneva, Switzerland. It appeared twice a month and was a medium of the Albanian democratic organization in exile “National Liberation Committee”. It continued intermittently until 1935. The newspaper was run by the democratic patriot Omer Nishani.

On July 29, 2005, the Dajti Express cable car from Tirana City to Mount Dajti was inaugurated. The longest cable car in the region is 4.2 kilometers long and goes above the village of Qesarak on the outskirts of Tirana, to the former Workers’ Camp on Mount Dajti. This distance is covered in just 14 minutes. Works on the cable car started on April 25, 2003, with an investment of 5.6 million Euro.

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