Calendar February 11, 2026
1920 - On February 11, 1920, the government emerging from the Lushnja Congress was established in Tirana, thus officially declaring...
“In Mete Braho’s house, 20 women, children, and men were burned alive; at Haxhi Latifi’s, the daughters of Haxhi Culani were dishonored, while Hava Ajshe and Nazo Arapi…” / The Memorandum sent to the UN in 1947.
By Isuf Bajrami Part Two Memorie.al / “In the name of our population, we protest once again against all of...
“When Haki Toska asked Alizot: ‘Do you have Maupassant’s “Bel-Ami”?—he replied: ‘I have it, but did you bring your wife with you? Because that is a dangerous book, since…'” / The unknown history of the famous Gjirokastra bookseller.
Part Five Excerpts from the book: ‘ALIZOT EMIRI – The Man, the Bookstore, and the Noble Mirth’ A FEW...
“Kadare’s fate was at risk from the dictatorial state, and his arrival in France, where he sought political asylum, created an ‘electroshock’ in Albania, as…” / The rare testimony of the French publisher of ‘Fayard’, Claude Durand.
By Blendi Fevziu Memorie.al / Mr. Durand, let us begin this conversation with your first arrival in Albania. In the...
![“Count Durazzo and Mozart discussed this piece, as a few years prior he had attempted to stage it in the Theaters of Vienna; he even [discussed it] with Rousseau…” / The unknown history of the famous Durazzo family.](https://memorie.al/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/collagemozart_Durazzo-2-350x250.jpg)
“Count Durazzo and Mozart discussed this piece, as a few years prior he had attempted to stage it in the Theaters of Vienna; he even [discussed it] with Rousseau…” / The unknown history of the famous Durazzo family.
By Luan Rama Part two Memorie.al / The history of the Durazzo family is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant...
“Safet Butka, while serving as the Inspector of Education in Tirana between 1935 and 1937, provided the capital’s schools with photographs of National Awakening patriots, such as Koto Hoxhi and…” / The unknown history of the “pioneer” of education.
Memorie.al / 100 years ago, from a small balcony in the former Skela of Vlora, an elderly man with a...
“Gjyla Leci from Buçaj, Tropojë, has an escaped husband, Isuf Leci, and brother-in-law, Shaban; subsequently, her sister-in-law also escaped to Yugoslavia with her 4 sons…” / Decision of the Commission for Internment and Deportation, year 1967.
By Dashnor Kaloçi Part fifteen Memorie.al / From 1944, when it came to power, until the end of 1990, the...
Calendar February 10, 2026
1917 - Musine Kokalari, a 20th-century Albanian political and cultural activist and writer, was born in Adana. In 1937, she...
“From the prisoners of Bulqiza, the poisoning at the Elbasan Metallurgical Plant, and the explosive in Lezha, to the accident in Zall-Bastar, where people died…”! / The unknown events of 1979–’80, where 55 people died! (Facsimiles with names)
By Dashnor Kaloçi Memorie.al / The distant year 1979, besides the earthquake of April 15 where approximately 36 people lost...
“In Filat, 47 men, women and children were massacred, in Spathar, 157 were disappeared, while all the young women and girls were dishonored by the criminals of Zerva…” ! / The tragic history of Chameria, from the Greek massacres!
By Isuf Bajrami Part One Memorie.al / “In the name of our population, we protest once again for all of...