Bucharest, 7 April, 2024
During his stay in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, met two representatives of the Albanian diaspora in Romania, the vice-chairman of the Association “Albanians of Romania” (ALAR), Luan Topçiu, and the doctor of sciences and metallurgical engineering, Progress Taurus.
Together with them, Prime Minister Kurti visited the bust of Ismail Qemali at the “Grand Hotel Continental” where at the beginning of November 1912 he together with Luigj Gurakuqi and other patriots met before the declaration of the Independence of Albania in Vlora. He also visited the commemorative plaque of the “St. Nicholas” church, where it is noted that for the first time the renaissanceist Fan S. Noli celebrated mass in the Albanian language in 1911, and in which religious rites were performed by the Albanian Orthodox community until 1945. Bucharest. He also visited the Herastrau Park where there is also the bust of the poet, our great renaissance Naim Frashëri.
Romania has historically been an important center of the Albanian National Renaissance, a place where Albanian intellectuals elaborated national thought and cultivated national feelings and identity in the face of hostile currents.
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