The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Istanbul formally recognized the autocephaly of the Albanian Orthodox Church, on April 12th, 1937. This avoided the foreign interference in the affairs of our church and practically the efforts of the Greek invasion for Hellenising the Albanian Orthodox. The efforts for the autocephalous church or the Albanian independence begin with the first Renaissance: Vangjel Meski, Dhaskal Todri, Grigor Gjirokastriti, etc.
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23 February 1925, the Frenchman Aleksander Kole paints Albanians
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23 February 1843, lecture of prof. Franz Bopp at the Academy of Sciences in Berlin: Albanian is an Indo-European language
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23 February 1848, was published by De Rada the newspaper “L’Albanese d’Italia”
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23 February 1921, was born the Italian Albanologist Giovanni Battista Pellegrini
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23 February 1923, was born the composer Dhora Leka