Milto Manaqi
The artistic world today celebrates the birth anniversary of the first Albanian filmmaker Milto Manaq. He was born in Avdela village of Chameria on 9 September 1882. Along with his brother Janaqi, he is the first Albanian and Balkan cinematic pioneers and rare masters of photographic art. With the picture “Woman from Klisura with the baby”, he won the gold medal in the International Artistic Photo Contest in 1906, whiles the documentary film “The Trolls”, shot in 1905, marked the beginning of the seventh art in the Balkans.
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22 November 1902, was established the night school for our Bulgarian exiles
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22 November 1913, was published the Convenient Canon of the Civil Administration of Albania
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22 November 1908, was concluded the Congress of Monastery
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22 November 1923, the first number of the political newspaper Xhoka
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22 November 1927, was signed The Second Pact of Tirana