{"id":6504,"date":"2026-02-20T04:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/10\/the-overthrow-of-the-statue-of-enver-hoxha\/---9bc3fe04-507f-48e1-9826-b68e11cbd6b1"},"modified":"2026-02-20T04:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:31:27","slug":"the-overthrow-of-the-statue-of-enver-hoxha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2026\/02\/20\/the-overthrow-of-the-statue-of-enver-hoxha\/","title":{"rendered":"The overthrow of the statue of Enver Hoxha."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people marched towards &#8220;Sk\u00ebnderbej&#8221; square and overthrew the statue of Enver Hoxha, without encountering resistance from the police. A part of it even joined the demonstrators. A few days after the fall of the statue, the government issued the decision to divide &#8220;Enver Hoxha&#8221; University into two universities, with the names: &#8220;University of Tirana&#8221; and Polytechnic University&#8221;. Such events also took place in the main cities of the country, such as: Kor\u00e7\u00eb, Vlor\u00eb, Durr\u00ebs and Gjirokast\u00ebr. <i>(In the photo: The moment of the collapse of the Enver Hoxha monument.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2115.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 National History Museum<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people marched towards &#8220;Sk\u00ebnderbej&#8221; square and overthrew the statue of Enver Hoxha, without encountering resistance from the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8805,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6504\/revisions\/8805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}