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  Fan Noli
Noli was born in the village of Ibrik Tepe (Alb.
On 21 November 1923, Noli was consecrated Bishop of Korça and Metropolitan of Durrës.
Noli translated poetry of various nineteenth-century European and American authors, and most often managed, with the ear of the musician he was, to reflect the style, taste and rhythmical nuances of the originals.
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 1921, Nov. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
As its international position solidified, Albania experienced a period of political instability revolving mainly around the necessity of social and economic reform before modernization.
Fan Noli seized control of the government following a short-lived uprising and announced a comprehensive reform plan, including land distribution and the establishment of national legal and educational systems.
Noli's opposition ended by the mid-1930s, however, and Zogu faced few external antiregime groups after that.
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 Fan Noli - Definition, explanation
Noli arbeitete für verschiedene Zeitschriften und engagierte sich vor allem für die Gründung einer orthodoxen albanischen Kirche in den USA, weil die orthodoxen Albaner sich von der griechischen Kirche, der sie bis dahin angehörten, unterdrückt fühlten.
Von 1908 bis 1912 absolvierte Noli ein Studium in Harvard und kehrte dann nach Europa zurück, um auch dort die albanische Unabhängigkeitsbewegung zu unterstützen.
Noli engagierte sich von Amerika aus auch für die Gründung der Autokephalen orthodoxen Kirche von Albanien.
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 A short history of Albania
New elections in 1923 give the government a minority and leads to a political crisis.
After a revolution the Partia Demokratike (Democratic Party, PD), a radical liberal party led by Stylian Fan Noli, comes to power.
Fan Noli becomes prime minister and later regent of the country.
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 History - GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Fan Noli, an idealist, rejected demands for new elections on the grounds that Albania needed a "paternal" government.
Noli criticized the League of Nations for failing to settle the threat facing Albania on its land borders.
Under Fan Noli, the government set up a special tribunal that passed death sentences, in absentia, on Zogu, Verlaci, and others and confiscated their property.
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 KAILAS RECORDS :: NEWS
Noli, composed, the former a symphony and the latter a tone-poem, on the subject of Scanderbeg.
Fan S. Noli, an Orthodox Bishop, composed in Boston, among other major vocal and orchestral works, the Symphonic Poem Scanderbeg for full orchestra, based on Longfellow's poem of the same name, and A Song for Tenor and Orchestra, Le Pauvre Gaspard.
As Noli's works were composed in America in 1937 and 1938, there was no time for them to be known to the Albanian audiences, then the War came and after that the totalitarian regime.
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 Kutrubes Travel - Albania   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In June of 1924 another politician Fan Noli became prime minister for a brief six month period only to be replaced again by Zogu who finally took control of Albania and eventually declared himself King in 1928.
Fan Noli is significant in Albanian history because after he left the position of prime minister he emigrated to America.
But Fan Noli is perhaps best remembered for his role as a founding father of the first Albanian Orthodox Community in the United States in Boston where he served as Bishop until his death in 1964.
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 Sister Act - TIME
The founder of this church, named Fan Stylian Noli, is a Harvard classmate (1912) of Humorist Robert Benchley, Steelman Hugh Gaddis, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Kermit Roosevelt.
He is undoubtedly the only man who was ever, at the same time, a Harvard undergraduate, an able shotputter, an Orthodox bishop aged 19; for Fan Noli, on leaving his Turkish-ruled native land, took pains to organize the church in the U. S., getting himself named its bishop before matriculating at Harvard in 1908.
Minister Konitza, Bishop Noli and the three princesses chatted in Boston's Ritz-Carlton Hotel and next day the Moslem sisters, overdressed as usual, attended two Boston Albanian churches in which prayers were offered for King Zog and the people of Albania.
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 Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 97-01-06
DURRES, JAN 6 (ATA)- By S. Gjordeni, The National Association "Fan Noli" on Sunday held a divine mass in the orthodox church of Durres on the 115th anniversary of the birth of Fan Noli, great statesman, democrat and distinguished figure of the Albanian letters.
Fan Noli was founder of the Albanian Orthodox Autocephalous Church.
It was approved on principle the drafting of the project for the actual level of evaluation of the pollution near the region of river Fan from the activity of the industry of cooper and the measures to be taken for its rehabilitation.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1997/97-01-06.ata.html   (1022 words)

  
 East European Quarterly: Fan Noli, Albania and the Soviet Union.@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 1924 Fan Noli revolution in Albania was doomed from the beginning.
Noli was idealistic and liberal and someone who understood little of interwar Albanian politics.
Noli was unable to win the international community's confidence and a much-desired membership in the League of Nations for his country.
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 BostonFamilyHistory.com -- The Place to Meet Your Past   (Site not responding. Last check: )
1907: The first Albanian drama (3 Acts), Israelites and Philistines by Fan S. Noli, portraying the old conflicts between these two factions is produced in Boston.
1907-1908: With the refusal of the Greek clergy to offer a Christian burial to an Albanian patriot in Hudson, Massachusetts, Albanian leader Fan S. Noli is asked in Boston to lead the movement for an Albanian Orthodox Church.
Noli is ordained to the priesthood, and Saint George Albanian Orthodox Church is organized at the Knights of Honor Hall on Tremont Street in Boston.
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 Fan Noli [Archive] - Albanian Forums
Albanian Forums > Albanian Forum > Culture > Fan Noli
Noli’s first literary work was a three-act drama entitled Israilitë dhe Filistinë, Boston 1907 (Israelites and Philistines).
08-29-2006, 12:47 AM That's why the Serbs helped Zogu regain power and overthrow Noli.
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 History of the UAO
As a priest serving in the United States (1908 till the 1920's) he was a loud voice calling for a united American Orthodox Church, and for the use of the English language in services.
To represent his nation Fan Noli served in the Albanian Parliment, and was Prime Minister of Albania in 1924.
Metropolitan Fan Noli also participated in the consecration of additional bishops who, combined with those consecrated by Bishop Aftimios, establish the mission and the Apostolic succession for many of the small Orthodox jurisdictions found in the United States.
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 OCA - Orthodox Church in America News
Archbishop Theofan [Fan] Noli established the Albanian Orthodox Mission under the American diocese.
SOUTH BOSTON, MA [OCA Communications] — The 40th anniversary of the repose of Archbishop Theofan [Fan] Noli will be commemorated at Saint George Cathedral here on Sunday, March 13, 2005.
His Grace, Bishop Nikon of Boston and the Albanian Archdiocese of the Orthodox Church in America will preside at the Divine Liturgy and Memorial at 10:00 a.m.
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 Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 99-02-25
TIRANE, Feb.24 (ata) - By Enkeleida Riza: The Foundation on Culture and Art "Fan Noli" adopted Wednesday a part of the projects it will finance in 1999.
There are seven literary books and historic studies, along with a scholarship abroad, a total of 1.3 million lek, which will be funded by this foundation.
The Foundation is named after Fan Stilian Noli, who with his all- round activity, has made a valuable contribution to the creation of the Albanian democratic culture in 20-30s.
www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1999/99-02-25.ata.html   (5719 words)

  
 Fan Noli statue - Tirana - Reviews of Fan Noli statue - TripAdvisor
Fan Noli statue - Tirana - Reviews of Fan Noli statue - TripAdvisor
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 Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Tiny Valhalla
While doing research at the National Archives on the Federal Musical Project, the New Deal’s short-lived gift to American musical life, I began writing down the names of completely obscure, weirdly named composers who showed up on FMP programs.
Fan Stylian Noli, this man here, is, I should have known, a major figure in Albanian history and literature, having served at one time as the prime minister of that embattled land; later, he “renounced politics to devote his life to music" and enrolled at the New England Conservatory.
Lamar Stringfield, I also should have known, won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1928.
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 Fan Noli statue - Tirana - Reviews of Fan Noli statue - TripAdvisor
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 Fan Noli - Albanian Forums
Ah, te ishte fan Noli ne fuqi dhe jo zogu ne sot do ishim shtet!
[quote:6d7189745b="SpTironc"]Ah, te ishte fan Noli ne fuqi dhe jo zogu ne sot do ishim shtet![/quote:6d7189745b]
That's why the Serbs helped Zogu regain power and overthrow Noli.
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 KULTURE   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Another prominent nationalist writer was Fan Noli, a Western-educated Orthodox bishop and leader of the country during the 1920s.
In addition to writing books, Noli translated western European books and poems into Albanian.
Two of the most distinguished composers of Albanian music are Kristi Kono and the writer, bishop, and political leader Fan Noli.
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 Find in a Library: [Bishop Fan Stylian Noli, half-length portrait, facing front, hand raised in blessing, in Boston
Find in a Library: [Bishop Fan Stylian Noli, half-length portrait, facing front, hand raised in blessing, in Boston
[Bishop Fan Stylian Noli, half-length portrait, facing front, hand raised in blessing, in Boston
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 State of the Albanian Nation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As we watched President Bush give his annual “State of the Union” speech, in which he concluded that the state of our nation is strong, I thought about the weak economic, political, and social conditions that affect the seven million Albanians living side by side in six political jurisdictions in the Balkans.
I thought to myself if Gjergj Kastrioti or Fan Noli were here today looking through my eyes, how would they assess the state of the Albanian nation in the political and economic context of the world today?
I think that Kastrioti and Noli would conclude that the state of the Albanian nation today is poor.
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 The Frosina Forum: FAN NOLI
Fan Noli (1882-1965), also known as Theophan Stylian Noli, was not only an outstanding leader of the Albanian-American community, but also a pre-eminent and multi-talented figure of Albanian literature, culture, religious life and politics.
His reputation as the ‘red bishop’ indeed caused a good deal of enmity and polarization in emigré circles in America.
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