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Ilias Vrioni

Ilias Vrioni

Albanian politician


Ilias bej Vrioni (1 January 1882 – 12 March 1932) was an Albanian politician and landowner. He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and served as Prime Minister of Albania three times.[1]

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Biography

Ilias Vrioni was born in 1882 in Berat, in the Janina Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, modern day Albania, to Mehmet Ali Pasha of the Vrioni family and Hysnije Vokopola of the Vokopola family, making Ilias maternally a relative to Ferid Vokopola.[2] His household had great chifliks in the surroundings of Berat, Fier, and the Myzeqe plain. His father was a high dignitary of the administration of the Ottoman Empire and collaborator of Abdyl Frashëri at the time of the Congress of Berlin,[3] his mother came from a local landowning family that had their chifliks in the surroundings of Vokopolë.[2]

He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912. He served three times as Prime Minister and five times as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He died in Paris in 1932, while serving his second mandate as the Plenipotentiary Minister of the Kingdom of Albania to Paris and London.

He was decorated in 1920s with the order of Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur of the French Republic.

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References

  1. "Albania statesmen".
  2. Vlora, Eqrem bej (2003). Lebenserinnerungen [Kujtime 1885-1925]. Translated by Afrim Koçi. Tiranë: IDK. p. 612. ISBN 99927-780-6-7.

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