The first issue of the newspaper "Zëri i Popullit" (The People's Voice) was published (1912–1913), a weekly political and literary newspaper in Albanian and partially in English.
In the village of Gradec, in the vicinity of Tetova, Mehmet Hasan Pasha Derralla was born, a military leader and Minister of War in the government of Ismail Qemali.
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.