On March 3, 1878, the Treaty of Saint Stefano was signed. The treaty seriously harmed the Albanian ethnic lands and became the cause of the explosion of large protest movements, which led in June of the same year to the establishment of the Albanian League of Prizren.

On March 3, 1907, the painter Zef Kolombi was born in Sarajevo to a Shkodra family. After graduating in painting in Rome, he was appointed a drawing teacher at the Elbasan Normal School, where he stayed for 10 years. In the last years of his life, he suffered from asthma and tuberculosis and died at the age of 42 on January 23, 1949.

On March 3, 1911, Mustafa Hilmi Leskoviku or Muço Qulli published the first issue of the political and social weekly in Albanian and Turkish “Drita” in Manastir. It saw the light of publication only for one year.

 On March 3, 1999, a global legend of human resistance died in the hellish prisons of communism in Albania: Osman KAZAZI, a nationalist activist of the “National Front”, anti-Nazi fascist and anti-communist… Osman Kazazi was born in Tirana on July 9, 1917. He grew up in a family of citizens of Tirana with the traditions, morals and patriotism of Tirana. In September 1939, Osmani enrolled in the “La Sapienza” university in Rome, branch of pharmacy, where he studied for 3 years. He decided to interrupt his studies due to the beginning of the Second World War and the anti-Italian resistance in Albania. He devoted himself to the fight against the invaders by taking actively participated in the Nationalist Organization Balli Kombëtar. He contributed to the press of this organization and to the organization of the anti-fascist resistance in Tirana. With the end of the war, the ordeal of his suffering in the hell of the communist dictatorship begins. Before the war ended well, on November 14, 1944, the communists of arrested as an activist of the National Front and anti-communist; jailed and exiled for 40 years of his life. Osman Kazazi or “Lala”, spent 42 years in political prison. Osman Kazazi, “Torch of Democracy” “Honorary Citizen of Shkodra” “Citizen Honor of Tirana” passed away on 3.3.1999.

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