the Government of Vlora
The Provisional Government of Vlora, at its next meeting, on December 6th, 1912, decided to keep in force “the Laws of Empire” Ottoman laws “while others justice canons become useful”. It also decided the confiscation of 173 fiefdoms, which belongs to the Turkish state, but did not touch the landowners’ properties, possessors of the biggest part of the farmlands. 70 thousands of rural families at the time, did not own an inch of land, while the other 60 thousand had very little piece of land.