{"id":8198,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/the-establishment-of-the-royal-military-school\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:21","slug":"the-establishment-of-the-royal-military-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/the-establishment-of-the-royal-military-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The establishment of the Royal Military School"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The <\/span>Royal<\/span> Military<\/span> Sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> (1928–1933), a <\/span>military<\/span> sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>secondary<\/span> education<\/span> system<\/span>, <\/span>was<\/span> founded<\/span> in Tirana. It <\/span>was<\/span> inaugurated<\/span> by <\/span>decree<\/span>, <\/span>initially<\/span> with<\/span> 170 <\/span>students<\/span> aged<\/span> 11–17. At the end <\/span>of<\/span> the <\/span>four<\/span> years<\/span>, the <\/span>students<\/span> of<\/span> this<\/span> sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> attended<\/span> the Aspirant <\/span>Sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> or <\/span>Apprentice-Officer<\/span> Sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> for<\/span> 9 <\/span>months<\/span> and<\/span> did<\/span> 3 <\/span>months<\/span> of<\/span> training<\/span> with<\/span> troops<\/span>. <\/span>After<\/span> that<\/span>, “<\/span>aspirants<\/span>” <\/span>were<\/span> promoted<\/span>. <\/span>Of<\/span> them, <\/span>only<\/span> the <\/span>best<\/span> were<\/span> kept<\/span> in <\/span>active<\/span> military<\/span> service<\/span>, <\/span>while<\/span> the <\/span>rest<\/span> were<\/span> taken <\/span>into<\/span> reserve<\/span>. The <\/span>Royal<\/span> Military<\/span> Sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> had<\/span> a <\/span>four-year<\/span> program <\/span>of<\/span> a <\/span>general<\/span> nature<\/span> interwoven<\/span> with<\/span> military<\/span> subjects<\/span>. <\/span>With<\/span> the <\/span>decree<\/span> laws<\/span> of<\/span> 1929 <\/span>and<\/span> 1930, <\/span>for<\/span> the <\/span>regulation<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>National<\/span> Army<\/span>, <\/span>this<\/span> sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span>, <\/span>like<\/span> the <\/span>others<\/span>, <\/span>was<\/span> included<\/span> in the <\/span>Land<\/span> Forces<\/span>. <\/span>Until<\/span> 1930, the <\/span>commander<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>Royal<\/span> Military<\/span> Sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> was<\/span> Major <\/span>Banush<\/span> Hamdiu<\/span>. The <\/span>sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> was<\/span> located<\/span> in the “<\/span>Sk<\/span>a<\/span>nderbeg<\/span>” <\/span>barracks<\/span>. In 1933, <\/span>due<\/span> to <\/span>lack<\/span> of<\/span> funds<\/span>, it <\/span>was<\/span> closed<\/span> and<\/span> its<\/span> students<\/span> were<\/span> sent<\/span> to the <\/span>state<\/span> high<\/span> sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span> of<\/span> Tirana. <\/span><\/span>(<\/span>Pictured<\/span>: <\/span>Military<\/span> Sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ol<\/span>, 1937.)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian<\/span> encyclopedic<\/span> dictionary<\/span> – Vol. 3 <\/span><\/span>, <\/span>Academy<\/span> of<\/span> Sciences<\/span> of<\/span> Albania<\/span>, “<\/span>Kristalina<\/span>-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2489.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Tirana, the Royal Military School was established (1928\u20131933), a military school within the secondary education system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198","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=8198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12135,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8198\/revisions\/12135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}