Ilias Vrioni Explained

Ilias Vrioni
Order1:6th Prime Minister of Albania
Term Start1:19 November 1920
Term End1:16 October 1921
Predecessor1:Sulejman Delvina
Successor1:Pandeli Evangjeli
Term Start2:27 May 1924
Term End2:10 June 1924
Predecessor2:Shefqet Vërlaci
Successor2:Fan Noli
Term Start3:24 December 1924
Term End3:5 January 1925
Predecessor3:Fan Noli
Successor3:Ahmet Zogu
Birth Date:1882 1, df=yes
Birth Place:Berat, Ottoman Empire (modern day Albania)
Death Place:Paris, France
Awards:Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
Spouse:Xhemile Dino
Relations:Ferid Vokopola (maternal cousin)
Children:Isuf Vrioni
Occupation:politician, diplomat
Profession:civil servant
Signature:Ilias Vrioni (nënshkrim).svg
Parents:Mehmet Ali Vrioni (father) Hysnije Vokopola (mother)
Nationality:Albanian

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]

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.

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.

Political Activity

See also

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Albania statesmen.
  2. Book: Vlora, Eqrem bej. Eqrem bej Vlora

    . Lebenserinnerungen. Kujtime 1885-1925. Eqrem bej Vlora. IDK. 2003. 99927-780-6-7. Tiranë. 612. Afrim Koçi.

  3. Book: Elsie, Robert. Robert Elsie

    . Robert Elsie. A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History. 2013. 475. I.B.Tauris. 9781780764313.