Pashko Vasa

Pashko Vasa Shkodrani (1825-1892), known as " Vasa Pacha" or " Wassa Pacha" , Albanian catholic of Shkodër, exerts various official functions within the Ottoman Empire, in particular governor of the autonomous province of Mount-Lebanon of 1883 to 1892. He dies in Beirut the June 29th 1892, and its remainders are repatriated in Shkodër in 1978.

Although incontestably a great figure of the Albanian alarm clock national at the 19th century, Pashko Vasa is also asserted by some like ascent aroumaine, which reflects the complexity of the Balkan identities ethnonationales: many Klephte S (highwaymen), figures of national historiography Greek, are thus asserted like Albanian ascent, one not preventing the other besides.

From 1843 to 1847, he works for the British consulate with Shkodër (city of the north of current the Albania), he learns or perfect his training from Italian, French, Turkish and the Greek. In 1847-1849 it remains in Italy, where it takes part in the anti-Austrian revolutionary insurrections with Venice in May 1849. It is then expelled, as an Othoman subject, towards Constantinople where it lives initially in poverty before engaging in the public office, with the Othoman embassy of London, then in an Othoman mission in Bosnia-Herzégovine (1863-1864), with Alep (current Syria) in 1867, with Varna (current Bulgaria) in 1879, with Beirut (current Lebanon) in 1883.

In 1877, it belongs to the founders of the " Central committee for the defense of the rights of the people albanais" , and in 1878 of the League of Prizren. He writes shortly after (1878-1880) celebrates it nationalist poem, O moj Shqypni (O Albania, poor Albania), preaching the Albanian national unit beyond the religious differences: (extracts)

You, Albanian, you between-commit suicide,

In hundred parties you are divided;

One is said Moslem, the other Christian,

One is said Turkish, other Greek Latin,

This one, this other Slavic,

But you all are brothers, my poor.

Priests and hodjas have you stunned

(...)

Faisons, like brothers, a common oath,

look neither towards the church nor towards the mosque,

the faith of the Albanian is the albanity!

It defends a project of local autonomy of an Othoman province gathering all the albanophones, and not an independent Albanian State as Sami Frashëri preaches it later, another great figure of Albanian nationalism.

He also wrote:

the mia prigionia, episodio storico LED' assedio di Venezia, Constantinople 1850;
Bosnia and Hercegovine during the mission of Djevdet Effendi, Constantinople 1865;
historical Draft on Montenegro according to the traditions of Albania, Constantinople, 1872;
Pink E spine, Constantinople 1873;
the Latin alphabet applied to the Albanian language, Constantinopole 1878;
the truth on Albania and the Albanians, Paris 1879;
Albanian Grammar with the use of those which wish to learn this language without the assistance from a Master, London 1887;
Bardha de Témal, scenes of the Albanian life, Paris 1890 (published under the pseudonym Albanus Albano).

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