Shkodra
The Albanian humanist, historian and professor Marin Biçikemi, nicknamed “Shkodrani”, was born in 1468. After the conquest of Shkodra by the Ottomans he moved in Ulinj and then in Brescia, Italy. For his knowledge’s, invited by Ragusa, served as a rector at the “literary school” for four years. He continued his pedagogical career in Brescia and then, in the Albanian School of Venice. During the years, 1519-1526, he gave lectures at the University of Padova, in Italy. He left a lot of works and numerous textbooks in Latin. The rich cultural heritage of Biçikemi represents him as a great character of European Renaissance.
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23 August 1848, was published the first number of the newspaper “Albanian of Italy” in Napoli of Italy
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23 August 1914, in the conditions of World War I, the last soldiers leave the city of Shkodra
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23 August 1878, today is commemorated the teacher and patriot Marigo Pozio
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23 August 1934, was held in Tirana the first Congress of Chambers of Commerce
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23 August 1937, took place the ceremony of the beginning of the works for the construction of the Bacteriological Laboratory