{"id":6705,"date":"2026-04-03T00:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/11\/second-congress-of-manastir\/---af98d5e8-90af-4b05-baa2-bc273c98cc78"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:28:26","slug":"second-congress-of-manastir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2023\/10\/11\/second-congress-of-manastir\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Congress of Manastir"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 2-3, 1910, <\/strong>the Second Congress of Manastir took place. In the aggravated state of Albanian-Turkish relations, when the conflict with the Young Turks over Albanian culture issues had peaked, the Albanian patriots convened another national assembly, the Second Congress of Manastir. This assembly was called by the initiative of the club “Bashkimi” of Manastir. 20 delegates participated in the Congress, representing 34 clubs and societies from the vilayets of Shkodra, Kosova, Manastir, and Ioannina, as well as the Albanian clubs of Istanbul, Thessaloniki, and other centers. Greeting telegrams came to the Congress from different parts of Albania and from the patriotic societies of diaspora. Unlike the previous national congresses, in this assembly there was a fairly large number of delegates from the cities of the provinces of Kosova and Manastir, from Peja, Gjakova, Gjilan, Mitrovica, Vu\u00e7iterna, Skopje, Tetova, Dibra, Struga, Ohrid, etc. Among the delegates were Dervish Hima, Fehim Zavalani, Petro Nini Luarasi, Hysni Curri, Ferit Ypi, Bedri Pejani, Qamil Shkupi, Gjergj Qiriazi, Bejtullah Gjilani, Themistokli Germenji, Tefik Panariti, Hajdar Blloshmi, Abdullah Efendiu (from Struga), Qazim Iliaz Dibra, Rexhep Mitrovica, Xhafer Kolonja, etc. Bedri Pejani was elected President of the Congress, while Ferit Ypi and Petro Nini Luarasi were elected secretaries. The purpose of this Congress was to discuss issues related to the defense of school, writing, and national culture against the Young Turk’s reaction and against the assimilation policy of the Young Turks. The Congress would take further measures to expand the network of the Albanian schools and develop Albanian culture as a whole. The main acts of the Second Congress of Manastir were the 10-point Program and a 4-point Memorandum, which was sent to the Turkish government. In these documents, important measures were foreseen for the development of national education, for the protection of the Albanian alphabet, for the publication of Albanian books and textbooks. For this purpose , an educational-cultural commission would be established near the central club, which in the program was called \u201cAcademy\u201d, which would deal with the publication of textbooks, literary works and an Albanian-Turkish dictionary and vice versa. It was planned to open a normal boarding school in Skopje, similar to the one in Elbasan, where a new newspaper in Albanian and Turkish would be founded, through which the Albanians and the European public opinion would be informed about the important events that were unfolding in this vilayet.The Second Congress of Manastir, as well as the rallies, protests, and other manifestations that took place in Albania on the eve of this assembly in February-March of 1910, expressed the determination of the Albanians for the protection of the Albanian script, the school and the national culture in general. At the same time, they were a warning of the armed uprising that would break out in the spring of 1910. (In the photo: Delegates participating in the Second Congress of Manastir, 1910.)<\/i> <\/p>\n

Text <\/strong>: History of the Albanian people <\/strong>– Vol. II <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Toena”, Tirana, 2002, page 423-425. <\/p>\n

Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Kotherja N., personal archive <\/p>\n

Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On April 2-3, 1910, the Second Congress of Manastir took place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ngjarje"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705","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=6705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6705\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}