-Alfonzo V, king of Naples and ally to George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, on December 6, 1454, formally asked the Pope to take over the anti-Ottoman campaign. He suggested to the Holy Father to put the Papal Fleet at the service of the anti-Ottoman war and help the war front in Albania with 1000 infantry solders and 200 cavalry men.

-On December 6, 1767, the first ideologist of the Albanian Renaissance, the prominent Enlightenment thinker and activist of the Albanian school, Naum Bredhi, known as Naum Veqilharxhi, was born. He is the publisher of the first Albanian primer and the compiler of an original version of the Albanian alphabet. Naum Veqilharxhi is the first martyr of Albanian education and culture. He passed away poisoned by the agents of the patriarchate of Istanbul.

-From December 6, 1700 to March 19, 1721, Gjon Françesku Albani was elected Pope, with the name Clement XI, an Albanian Pope belonging to the Albanian dynasty Albani in Italy. He was an erudite, with and extensive culture, philosopher, theologian, lawyer, man of letters and connoisseur of several classical languages.

-The temporary government of Vlora in its next meeting on December 6, 1912 decided that the laws of the Ottoman Empire would remain in force until other canons of justice were made. It also ordered the confiscation of 173 estates that were owned by the Ottoman state, but did not affect the estates of the landowners who owned most of the agricultural land.

-On December 6, 1922, the Conference of Ambassadors, for geographical, strategic, ethnic and economic reasons, decided that the monastery of Shën Naum should remain with Albania.

-On December 6, 1971, Karl Gurakuqi passed away. He was born in Shkodër, on March 24, 1895. He was lyceum director, teacher of Albanian and Latin language at the “the Queen Mother” Institute in Tirana, effective member of the Institute of Albanian Studies in the capacity of Albanian language teacher and writer.

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