Today is Independence Day in Albania. Independence Day (Albanian: Dita e Pavarësisë) is an annual public holiday in Albania on November 28th each year. This is Albania’s National Day and commemorates the date when Albania proclaimed its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912.
At the start of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was expanding into South-Eastern Europe, invading and controlling numerous lands ruled by local kingdoms. By 1431, the Ottomans ruled most of modern-day Albania.
In 1443, a local revolt was led by a deserter from the Ottomans called Skanderbeg. His heroic military campaigns to defend Albania against the might of the Ottoman Empire meant that he became a national hero to the Albanians. It is often said that Skandberg’s stand against the Ottomans may have prevented further expansion by the empire into more western regions of Europe.
Following Skanderbeg’s death, Albania fell back under Ottoman control in 1479 and it remained a part of the Ottoman Empire until just before the start of the first world war.
In the late nineteenth century, a wave of desire for nationhood had been sweeping across Eastern Europe and while Albania enjoyed a privileged position within the empire, it too was stirred into the various uprising against Ottoman rule. With the Ottomans having been weakened by the defeat in the Balkan Wars, an Albanian uprising of 1912 led to the proclamation of independence by Ismail Qemali, the leader of the Albanian national movement, on November 28th 1912.
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I’ve done some terrible things for money. Like getting up early to go to work.
If you think you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, then what you actually love is “Privilege.”
Whatever you do today, do it with the confidence of a 4-year-old in a Batman t-shirt.
Nothing refreshes my memory of what I need at the grocery store like coming home from the grocery store.
Golf – The adult version of an easter egg hunt.
Never in the history of calm down has anyone calmed down by being told to calm down.
I told my girlfriend she should embrace her mistakes. She gave me a hug.
Great minds think alike. Unfortunately, so do stupid ones.
IN CASE OF FIRE Please leave the building before posting it on social media.
Red States… Where you can live ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, but you can’t read it.
That look you make when you’re the tech person in the family and you hear someone say Grandma got a new phone.
I once lived a stone’s throw away from a family who all died of mysterious head injuries.
I don’t like making plans for the day because then the word “premeditated” gets thrown around in the courtroom.
Shame on you people making fun of George Santos, a man whose mother died not once but twice and possibly even three times!
Please help my wife and I decide on dinner. We’ve narrowed it down to “It doesn’t matter” and “It’s your turn to choose”.
Today is the birthday, in 1943, of Randy Newman, singer, songwriter, Composer of ‘Mama Told Me Not To Come’, ‘Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear’, 1977 US No.2 single ‘Short People.’ Film soundtracks including ‘Ragtime.’ Once hailed as the greatest songwriter alive by Paul McCartney. Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer, his film scores include Ragtime, Toy Story; A Bug’s Life; Toy Story 2; Monsters, Inc.; Cars; Toy Story 3; and Monsters University. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bfyS-S-IJs
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