On July 11, 1811, the Austrian diplomat and eminent Albanianologist Johan Georg von Hahn was born. He served as a judge in Greece where he got to know the Arvanites and their culture. In 1847, he was appointed consul in Ioannina, where he worked for the Albanian language, collaborating with Kristoforidi. At this time, he undertook a long study trip in the western Albanian provinces up to Shkoder. He included the collected observations and facts in the work “Albanian studies” published in 1854.

On July 11, 1913, the Dituria literary society was founded in Durres, one of the first cultural associations of the ancient city. Taking advantage of the situation of the Balkan war, the Greek chauvinists invaded many Albanian lands, paralyzing the internal activity of the government of Vilhelm Vidit, the king of Albania appointed by the Great Powers, but they encountered the center of the Albanian patriots and were forced to sign the alliance in Pogradec, the agreement for the preservation of the status quo on July 11, 1914.

On July 11, 1921, the patriot Sotir Peci was appointed Minister of Education for the second time. Initially, he directed this department in the Government of Sulejman Delvina on January 30, 1920.

On July 11, 1930, Andon Zako Çajupi, one of the Albanian renaissance supporters of democracy and civilization, passed away in Cairo. He was born in Sheper of Zagoria on March 27, 1866. His background influenced the formation of a profile that reflected the democratization of the mental movement and Albanian literature. While participating in the Albanian nationalist movement (especially between 1898 and 1912), Çajupi expressed his patriotic beliefs in the form of poetry and prose, with his poetry taking its cue from Tosk Albanian. The nationalist and patriotic messages of his poems made them extremely popular among Albanian adults and children, and led to Çajupi being revered as the most important Albanian poet after Naim Frashëri, a position he still holds in the modern state. Çajupi in 1898 also got involved in the Albanian alphabet question and wrote a series of articles in the periodical Albania where he advocated for adoption of a Latin script and objected to a Greek or Ottoman Turkish script for writing Albanian. Çajupi’s dramas and comedies are well known in Albania and are frequently put on stage. The poet died at his home in Egypt, on 11 July 1930. His remains were transferred to Albania in 1958.

On July 11, 1933, Gaspër Pali, poet, librarian of Albanian letters” with 16 friends from the “Illyricum” high school in Shkodra, founded the “Antonian Boyhood” Society, known for its cultural, religious and patriotic values.

On July 11, 1956, composer Preng Jakova started composing the opera Mrika, which laid the foundations of Albanian operatic art.

On July 11, 1995, a massacre was organized by the Serbs against the Muslim Bosniaks in Srebrenica, where 8,000 people, children, women, men and the elderly, were killed. The massacre in Srebrenica was organized by the Bosnian Serb army under the leadership of the famous general Ratko Mladic.

On July 11, 1995, The Assembly assessed that Albania was able and ready to fulfill the conditions for membership in the Council of Europe, the Republic of Albania acceded to the status of the Council of Europe.

On July 11, 1997, the Association of Albanian Publishers was established. The activity of each has already become known not only to people of letters, but also to the reader who follows with interest her activities, where the most popular is the book fair, which has already turned its presence into a tradition more than twice in year in cultural environments.

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