On July 13, 1880, one of the toughest battles of Albanian freedom fighters took place, under the leadership of Hodo Sokoli, for the protection of Hoti and Gruda, the ethnic Albanian troops that the Berlin Congress arbitrarily granted to Montenegro. As a result of the Albanian resistance, the Montenegrin armies gave up their occupation.
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10 May 1819, Ali Pasha Tepelena took the town of Parga without a war
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10 May 1892, in the Romanian capital, was opened the first Normal School in Albanian Language
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10 May 1897, Visar Dodan started publishing the newspaper “Albania” in Bucharest