On August 5, 1752, Monsignor Gjon Nikollë Kazazi passed away. He was born in Gjakova on January 1, 1702. He was educated among the Fide Propaganda colleges. He started his activity as an assistant to the archbishop of Skopje. He had the great fortune to discover in the Fide Propaganda library the only copy of Gjon Buzuku’s “Meshari” /The Holy Mass/, the oldest monument of printed Albanian (1555). Monsignor Kazazi led the archdiocese for ten consecutive years, until he passed away at the age of 50.

On August 5, 1878, the Central Council of the Albanian League of Prizren called for mobilization of soldiers throughout Albania.

On August 5, 1909, was born in Gjirokastër, the translator and diplomat, Hamit Kokalari, who has also made a valuable contribution to Albanology science. He headed the French High School in Korça and studied law in France. He returned to his homeland and for 15 years from 1936, he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Before his release, he served as a diplomat in the Albanian diplomatic representation in Rome and Skopje. After WWII, he worked as a translator at the Publishing House in Tirana, being the Albanian translator of 60 works. He is the author of the book “Kosova, the Cradle of Albanianess”, which he published in Albanian and French in 1943. Hamit Kokalari, the brother of the writer and dissident Musine Kokalari, passed away on March 26, 1989 in Tirana.

August 5, 1923, Pandeli Cale, patriot, and political activist, passed away. He was born in Korça on March 28, 1874. He completed his studies in Egypt. Then he went to Romania. He was a delegate at Congress of Albanian Letters in Manastir (1908). He was also an activist of the Committee for the Freedom of Albania and took active part in all patriotic movements of the time.

On August 5, 1926, the dissident writer Kasem Trebeshina was born in Berat. He began his studies at the Normal High School of Elbasan, until he decided to take part in the National Liberation War (Albanian WWII Resistance). He also stopped his higher studies at the Leningrad Theater Institute and devoted himself entirely to creativity literary. Trebeshina’s works began to be published in the early 1990s, initially in Prishtina. Among them we mention: “Season of seasons”, “History of those who are not”, “Legend of what is gone”, “The time is now, the place is here”. Most of the work of Kasem Trebeshina is still in manuscript: 18 volumes of poetry, 42 plays, 21 novels and volumes of short stories. Kasem Trebeshina was recognized as a writer only during the last decade of the 20th century. This fact is initially related to his open political rebellion, and then his literary dissidence.

On August 5, 1943, the first frontal battle of Albanian National Liberation Army with the Nazy invaders took place. It was the Battle of Konispol, which lasted 54 days.

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