page_title: Sotir Peçi
section_title: Activities in Albania
hierarchical_section_title: Sotir Peçi / Activities in Albania
caption_attribution_description: English: Sotir Peçi street in Korçë
context_page_description: Sotir Peçi was an Albanian politician, educator and mathematician. In 1906 he published the first Albanian-language newspaper in the United States of America in Boston. In 1908 he participated as a delegate in the Congress of Monastir. In 1920 he was appointed Minister of Education of Albania.
context_section_description: In 1908 Peçi participated in the Congress of Monastir, an academic conference held in Manastir (modern Bitola), in the Vilayet of Monastir from 14 to 22 November 1908, with the goal of standardizing the Albanian alphabet, as a delegate of the Albanian communities living in the United States of America for whom he was granted three votes. After returning to Albania in 1908 he taught at the Normal School of Elbasan. During the late Ottoman period, Peçi supported Austro-Hungarian assistance toward Albanian geopolitical interests in the Balkans.
  Sotir Peçi wrote a series of textbooks in physics, mathematics and grammar and was appointed director of education of Korçë. He was a member of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo, founded in Shkodër in late 1918. He also participated at the national Congress of Lushnjë where a new national cabinet was elected with Sulejman Delvina as its prime minister. Sotir Peçi was elected Minister of Education. In 1921 he was elected deputy of Korçë. He also became a member of the Supreme Council of Regency.
  In 1924 he appointed the bishop of Durrës Fan Noli as prime minister of Albania. After the failure of the June Revolution and rise of Ahmet Zogu in power, Peçi left to Italy and later settled in Greece. He was given a death sentence in absent, but then revoked by the partial amnesty that Zog applied. Anyway, he never reconciled with the Tirana politics.
  Sotir Peçi died in Florina in 1932. His body was reburied in Korçë with great honors while Zog was in power. He was honoured posthumously with the title Teacher of the People (Albanian: Mësues i Popullit). A road and a school in Korçë were renamed after him.
caption: Sotir Peçi street in Korçë
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