{"id":7816,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/mihal-duri\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:47","slug":"mihal-duri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/mihal-duri\/","title":{"rendered":"Mihal Duri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Damjan of <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, Mihal Duri, a par<\/span>t<\/span>icipan<\/span>t<\/span> in <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion An<\/span>t<\/span>i-Fascis<\/span>t<\/span> War and Hero of <\/span>t<\/span>he People, was killed while figh<\/span>t<\/span>ing agains<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he fascis<\/span>t<\/span>s. He was born in Erind of<\/span> Lunxheria<\/span> (Gjirokas<\/span>t<\/span>ër) in 1916. Duri worked as a <\/span>t<\/span>ypographer in <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, where he embraced communis<\/span>t<\/span> ideas and became one of <\/span>t<\/span>he organizers and leaders of <\/span>t<\/span>he an<\/span>t<\/span>i-fascis<\/span>t<\/span> and labor movemen<\/span>t<\/span> among <\/span>t<\/span>ypographers. He was also a founder of <\/span>t<\/span>he Associa<\/span>t<\/span>ion of <\/span>T<\/span>ypographers and Carpen<\/span>t<\/span>ers of <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a. He was imprisoned in 1941 bu<\/span>t<\/span> escaped in Sep<\/span>t<\/span>ember and wen<\/span>t<\/span> underground. A member of <\/span>t<\/span>he Albanian Communis<\/span>t<\/span> Par<\/span>t<\/span>y since i<\/span>t<\/span>s founding, Duri was one of <\/span>t<\/span>he organizers of <\/span>t<\/span>he illegal press and served as secre<\/span>t<\/span>ary of <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>cell of <\/span>t<\/span>he Albanian Communis<\/span>t<\/span> Par<\/span>t<\/span>y in <\/span>t<\/span>he an<\/span>t<\/span>i-fascis<\/span>t<\/span> de<\/span>t<\/span>achmen<\/span>t<\/span> of Peza. He <\/span>par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> in <\/span>t<\/span>he de<\/span>t<\/span>achmen<\/span>t<\/span>’s firs<\/span>t<\/span> comba<\/span>t<\/span> ac<\/span>t<\/span>ions in <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, <\/span>Ndroq<\/span>, Durrës, and o<\/span>t<\/span>her loca<\/span>t<\/span>ions. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/em>o: Mihal Duri<\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>ex<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dic<\/span>t<\/span>ionary – Vol. <\/span>1 <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kris<\/span>t<\/span>alina-KH”, <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, 2008, page 549.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© <\/span>Ledio<\/span> Xhoxhi<\/span>, personal archive.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

Mihal Duri, a participant in the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War and a People’s Hero, was killed fighting against the fascists in Damjan, Tirana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7816","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\/7816","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=7816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11374,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions\/11374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}