{"id":6571,"date":"2026-03-05T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/11\/osman-haxhiu\/---40855148-fad9-4961-9f0e-7198c477d9ea"},"modified":"2026-03-05T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T00:46:12","slug":"osman-haxhiu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2026\/03\/05\/osman-haxhiu\/","title":{"rendered":"Osman Haxhiu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW109625916 BCX8\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW109625916 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml_lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Osman Haxhiu, leader of the Albanian National Movement and one of the leaders of the Vlora War (1920), passed away. He was born in Picar, Vlora. He finished the American high school &#8220;Roberts College&#8221;, in Istanbul. He was involved in the patriotic activity of the club &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Lab&euml;ria<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">&#8221; of Vlora (1908). In the years 1911-1912, he <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">participated<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> in the <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Ant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">i-Ottoman Uprising of Vlora and <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Mallakastra<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">. With the Declaration of National Independence, he served in the sub-prefecture of Fier and the Municipality of Vlora. In the years 1914-1917, he was prefect of Vlora. <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun AdvancedProofingIssueV2Themed SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">In an effort to<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> protect national rights, Osman Haxhiu opposed the Italian invaders, who removed him from the post of prefect in February 1917. With his stance against the efforts of the government of Rome to separate the province of Vlora from Albania and to <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">establish<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> Italian sovereignty over it, gained great authority in the province of Vlora. In the Assembly of <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Bar&ccedil;allai<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> (Vlora) on May 29, 1920, Osman Haxhiu was elected <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">chairman<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> of the National Defense Committee, which organized and directed the War of Vlora. In 1921, he was elected a deputy in the Albanian parliament (1921&ndash;1923). He <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">participated<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> in the Democratic Revolution of June 1924 and supported the government of Fan S. Noli. After Fan Noli&#8217;s government fell, he retired from political life. <\/span><\/span><em><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml_lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">(In the photo: Osman Haxhiu)<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW109625916 BCX8\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW109625916 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml_lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"><strong>Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml_lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><em><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. <\/span><\/em><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"><em>2<\/em> <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml_lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">,<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 897-898.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW109625916 BCX8\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW109625916 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml_lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"><strong>Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml_lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">&copy; <\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">Xhoxhi<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"> L., personal archive<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:276}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"OutlineElement Ltr SCXW109625916 BCX8\">\n<p class=\"Paragraph SCXW109625916 BCX8\"><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN\" xml_lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\"><strong>Graphic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" lang=\"EN\" xml_lang=\"EN\" data-contrast=\"auto\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW109625916 BCX8\" data-ccp-parastyle=\"No Spacing\">AHCF<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osman Haxhiu, leader of the Albanian National Movement and one of the leaders of the Vlora War (1920), passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","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=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8929,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/8929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}