{"id":7834,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/hasan-ceka-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:48","slug":"hasan-ceka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/hasan-ceka-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasan Ceka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hasan <\/span>Ceka<\/span> was born in Elbasan and is recognized as one of <\/span>t<\/span>he founders of Albanian archaeology, specializing in an<\/span>t<\/span>iqui<\/span>t<\/span>y and numisma<\/span>t<\/span>ics. He comple<\/span>t<\/span>ed high school in his home<\/span>t<\/span>own and gradua<\/span>t<\/span>ed from <\/span>t<\/span>he Universi<\/span>t<\/span>y of Vienna wi<\/span>t<\/span>h a degree <\/span>in archaeology in 1930. <\/span>T<\/span>ha<\/span>t<\/span> same year, he re<\/span>t<\/span>urned <\/span>t<\/span>o Albania, where he worked on crea<\/span>t<\/span>ing an archaeological collec<\/span>t<\/span>ion and <\/span>represen<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> t<\/span>he Albanian s<\/span>t<\/span>a<\/span>t<\/span>e on foreign missions in Bu<\/span>t<\/span>rin<\/span>t<\/span> and Apollonia. From 1947 un<\/span>t<\/span>il his re<\/span>t<\/span>iremen<\/span>t<\/span>, <\/span>Ceka<\/span> engaged in ex<\/span>t<\/span>ens<\/span>ive research and s<\/span>t<\/span>udy ac<\/span>t<\/span>ivi<\/span>t<\/span>ies, dedica<\/span>t<\/span>ing 40 years <\/span>t<\/span>o excava<\/span>t<\/span>ing and s<\/span>t<\/span>udying <\/span>t<\/span>he ancien<\/span>t<\/span> ci<\/span>t<\/span>y of Apollonia. He au<\/span>t<\/span>hored <\/span>numerous<\/span> ar<\/span>t<\/span>icles on various his<\/span>t<\/span>orical and archaeological <\/span>t<\/span>opics published abroad and, as a connoisseur of ancien<\/span>t<\/span> Greek and La<\/span>t<\/span>in<\/span>, <\/span>assis<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> in preparing <\/span>t<\/span>he volume “<\/span>Ilirë<\/span>t<\/span> dhe<\/span> Iliria <\/span>t<\/span>ek<\/span> au<\/span>t<\/span>orë<\/span>t<\/span> an<\/span>t<\/span>ikë<\/span>” (“Illyrians and Illyria among Ancien<\/span>t<\/span> Au<\/span>t<\/span>hors”). He also focused on <\/span>es<\/span>t<\/span>ablishing<\/span> a numisma<\/span>t<\/span>ic cabine<\/span>t<\/span>, culmina<\/span>t<\/span>ing in <\/span>t<\/span>he publica<\/span>t<\/span>ion of his works “<\/span>Probleme<\/span> t<\/span>ë<\/span> numizma<\/span>t<\/span>ikës<\/span> ilire<\/span>” (“<\/span>Problems of Illyrian Numisma<\/span>t<\/span>ics”) (1965) and “<\/span>Në<\/span> kërkim<\/span> t<\/span>ë<\/span> his<\/span>t<\/span>orisë<\/span> Ilire<\/span>” (“In Search of Illyrian His<\/span>t<\/span>ory”) (1998). Hasan <\/span>Ceka<\/span> passed away in 1998. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: Hasan <\/span>Ceka<\/span><\/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 Alban<\/span>ia, “Kris<\/span>t<\/span>alina-KH”, <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, 2008, page 357-358.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© Albanian <\/span>T<\/span>elegraphic Agency<\/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":"

Hasan Ceka, one of the founders of Albanian archaeology, a specialist in the antiquity period and in the field of numismatics, was born in Elbasan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","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=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11410,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions\/11410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}