In Gjirokastër, the first issue of the newspaper "Reforma" was published (1921–1923), a religious, political, and literary newspaper, the organ of the Bektashi clergy.
October 29 – November 17, 1944. The "Battle for the Liberation of Tirana" took place, a major operation that was one of the most important, fierce, and successful conducted by the units of the Albanian National Liberation Army against German forces and their collaborators for the liberation of the cities of Albania.
Muzafer Asqeriu, participant in the communist movement and in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was killed in the war with the Italian forces.