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Dr. Rudina Mita
Prof. Dr. Hysen Slinica
A REVIEW ON THE FIGURE, PERSONALITY AND
ACTIVITY OF AQIF PASHA ELBASANI
For Aqif Pasha Elbasani (or Biçakçi1, as he is often known
in the documents) as a political and historical personality, as
a statesman and as among the most prominent figures of the
Albanian national movement before and after the independence
of Albania, as an unyielding fighter for the unification of the
Albanian territories in a national state, as one of the most
prominent activists of the Albanian national history for the
freedom and independence of Albania and for the building,
consolidating the democratization of the independent Albanian
state, has not much been written and talked of. However, for
reasons known and already overcome, even nowadays, in the
period of democracy, there are not yet works to the extent that
he deserves and that belong to this personality of the outstanding
contributions in the history of Albanian nation. The period of
democracy,
1.ELBASANI-Encyclopedia, City Municipality, Sejko,
Elbasan 2003 page 59.
which assured and guaranteed the freedom of thought
and research allowed and favored the revaluation and revising
process of history, of its events and figures, putting in its place
the historical truth with the necessary scientific objectivity. We
hope and believe that this modest paper presented for this great
figure of our national history is a step towards further lighting of
his activity.
Aqif Pasha Elbasani was a political activist during a time
period that begins with the last decade of the nineteenth century,
when he was included in the Albanian National Movement and
by the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century, when
he died in 1926. Fully, 36 years of intense activity in service
and dedicated to his nation and homeland. It is just exactly in
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