{"id":6726,"date":"2026-04-08T00:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/11\/sotir-peci\/---99793e69-814b-4c2f-a528-432c312ed313"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:15:40","slug":"sotir-peci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2026\/04\/08\/sotir-peci\/","title":{"rendered":"Sotir Peci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 8, 1932 <\/strong>, in Follorina, Greece, Sotir Peci, an activist of the National Renaissance and the period of Independence, an outstanding figure of national education, Teacher of the People, passed away. He published the &#8220;Kombi&#8221; newspaper in Boston (USA) (1906\u20131908). Together with Petro Nini Luarasi and Fan Noli, they played a role in the formation of the &#8220;Besa-Bes\u00ebn&#8221; society in Boston, in 1907, and the &#8220;Lidhja&#8221; society in Saint Louis (Saint Louis), etc. He participated in the Congress of Manastir (1908). With the opening of the Normal School in Elbasan (1909), he was appointed a mathematics and natural sciences teacher. He directed the Albanian School of Kor\u00e7a (1911\u20131912). He was a member of the National Party (1914\u20131920), which was founded in Shkod\u00ebr with branches in the country&#8217;s main cities, to oppose the plans of the Great Powers and the neighbors for the fragmentation of Albania. He participated as a delegate in the meeting of the National Congress of Lushnja (1920) and in the government that he formed, he was elected Minister of Education. For a few years, he was a member of the Supreme Council. After the suppression of the Democratic Revolution of June 1924, he emigrated abroad. Sotir Peci helped with the problems of education, as a publicist, author of school textbooks, participant in the Education Congresses in 1920 and 1922, etc. <i>(In the photo: Sotir Peci)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/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 1966.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sotir_Peci&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 8, 1932 , in Follorina, Greece, Sotir Peci, an activist of the National Renaissance and the period of Independence, an outstanding figure of national education, Teacher of the People, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6726","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\/6726","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=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9226,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/9226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}