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	Vlora`s History
		Vlora was incorporated in Ali Pash‘ Tepelena's kingdom in 1812.
		In 1920, the National Defense Committee was formed in Vlora, which organized the forces that fought in the War of Vlora, which was fought between the Albanians and Italians over the control of the town, after the Italians refused to coincide to the ultimatum of the government of Tirana to hand over the city.
		Vlora remained a center of democratic movements, in April, 1924, a committee was formed here, which led an uprising against King Zog's rule, which eventually led to the June Revolution, and the establishment of the first democratic government of Albania.
	vl.netfirms.com /vlhist.htm (725 words)

	MyTouristGuide - Albania - Vlora (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It was in Vlora that an Assembly was convened, which proclaimed Albania as an independent state, forming the first national government headed by Ismail Qemali on the 28th of November, 1912.
		Vlora was occupied by the Italian troops in 1914 during the first World War, but they were driven from the main land in 1920, by a volunteer army.
		Vlora is the seat of the Ismail Qemali University, founded in 1994, which replaced the school for Naval Officers.
	www.mytouristguide.com /content/view/71/44 (1383 words)

	evlora
		Vlora and her family are to stay in Denmark until the spring.
		Vlora has always wanted to be an actress, and at the centre they have acted a comedy that she was in.
		Vlora's oldest brothers and sisters would like to stay in Denmark — not always, but perhaps for some years; they would like to get started on the new life now, and not wait until the spring, when the family is returning home to start again.
	www.natmus.dk /saer/liv/evlora.htm (569 words)

	DKS: Amid chaos, troops move to Albania
		Vlora has been at the center of violence that began six weeks ago to protest failed investment schemes in which nearly every Albanian lost money, and has since escalated into general anti-government unrest.
		A 4-year-old girl was shot and killed Tuesday as she played in her yard in Vlora, hospital officials said.
		A Vlora resident, speaking by telephone on condition of anonymity, said people were terrified to go outside because the shooting was relentless.
	www.stater.kent.edu /stories_old/97spr/030597/w2a.html (749 words)

	Guardian \| Smugglers latch on to Kosovans
		Vlora Beirut!" toasted our host as we clinked glasses and downed more of his excellent "grappa", made on the premises in an unlicensed still.
		This is a town so falteringly in the grip of the state that when police inspect arriving vehicles, the officers, fearful of reprisals, wear face masks to conceal their identities.
		Vlora is a stronghold of the ruling Socialists.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3870662-103558,00.html (834 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Vlora, Albania; 25 October 2001 (RFE/RL) -- Earlier this month, the high tide washed ashore near the Albanian port of Vlora the body of a young man, whom local police identified as a victim of the trafficking in refugees.
		Vlora's police department so far this year has impounded 35 boats, filed charges against 92 persons for human trafficking, and blocked some 7,000 people from leaving for Italy illegally.
		He says the police have identified the individuals engaged in trafficking and the means by which such activities are carried out: "Vlora's police department has accurate data regarding individuals engaged in trafficking, their environment, their manner of trafficking, the different points along the coast from which they depart for Italy.
	www.rferl.org /features/2001/10/25102001083327.asp (821 words)

	Albania: Alleged ill-treatment of detainees by police
		On 9 March it was reported that Z had been arrested and on 12 March he was remanded in custody on charges of ''Torture'' under Article 86 of the Albanian Penal Code, an offence punishable by five to 10 years' imprisonment.
		Vlora Procurator's Office is reported to have issued arrest warrants for three other men (civilians) on the same charges.
		Neritan Gjikondi's father, Ramazan Gjikondi, filed a complaint with the Military Procurator in Vlora on 12 January 2002, requesting that penal proceedings be started against police officer X on charges of ''Abuse of office'', under Article 248 of the Albanian Penal Code, an offence punishable with a fine or up to seven years' imprisonment.
	www.amnestyusa.org /stoptorture/document.do?id=39CDB22F4FA28CB280256BE90035BAC7 (5547 words)

	The Militant - 4/7/97 -- Revolt Deals Blow To Attempts To Restore Capitalist Rule In Albania
		In the southern half of the country, particularly in Vlora, the Front is functioning as an alternative government.
		The Committee for the Salvation of Vlora has since met with representatives of the European Union on an Italian warship near the city's port-but out of Albania's territorial waters-and has rejected all appeals to call for the return of the weapons, now in the hands of citizens, until Berisha resigns.
		In Vlora, where defense is organized tightly by the rebels, such actions have been minimized.
	www.themilitant.com /1997/6114/6114_3.html (5425 words)

	www.terrelibere.it/terrediconfine - la bacheca elettronica di terrelibere.it
		She shivers of any noise, fright, anxiety, panic Her face and body is covered with bruises and burnt spots caused by cigarettes, which sew grave pains, aggravated by the hot and dirty venue she stays.
		She has been found the way, naked, hungry, violated, gravely beaten in the middle of the forests of Vlora, a city that is transformed in a smuggling point and human trafficking.
		The police does not know where to send her to; what to do with her; the only place for her is this corner of the psychiatric hospital of Vlora, where another Albanian girl is hospitalized after having suffered the same story and after having undergone a long odyssey of criminal tortures.
	www.terrelibere.it /terrediconfine/index.php?x=completa&riga=0689 (1042 words)

	Albanian police attack crowds of anti-government protesters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		VLORA, Albania (AP) - Police fired water cannons and plastic bullets Wednesday at thousands of Albanian protesters infuriated by the failure of another investment scheme that swallowed up their savings.
		Officers fired into the air from a police van as it cruised along a boulevard of this southern port city, and masked policemen beat up one demonstrator until he lay bloody and motionless on the ground.
		The protest began after the Gjallica investment fund, based in Vlora, announced that it would not pay investors on Thursday as it had promised when it shut its doors several weeks ago.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/020697/albanian.htm (536 words)

	Interview with Representative of Albanian Salvation Committee
		This crisis is particularly deep here in Vlora, which was hit hard by the so-called "financial pyramids." The fraud amounted to $600 million US, half of the money taken by the "pyramids" in all Albania.
		Everybody, the youth and the elderly, were united when 5,000 troops sent by Berisha entered Vlora and were forced to retreat in 15-20 minutes.
		The rebellion in Vlora alarmed Europe, not because Albania is important, being a small country, but because of the example that it set.
	www.mltranslations.org /Albania/salvcomm.htm (1168 words)

	CNN - Outraged mourners honor Albanian riot victim - Feb. 11, 1997
		VLORA, Albania (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of mourners poured through the Albanian port of Vlora on Tuesday in an explosion of outrage after the funeral of an anti-government demonstrator killed in clashes with police.
		Artur Rustemi was one of three people to die in two days of clashes between police and protesters who blame President Sali Berisha for the loss of their life savings in failed pyramid investment schemes.
		In the capital Tirana, parliament was to study an appeal by Prime Minister Aleksander Meksi to introduce emergency rule in Vlora, 90 miles (150 km) to the south.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9702/11/albania (575 words)

	Sacred Heart senior's harrowing journey from Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vlora Canolli, an 18-year-old Academy of the Sacred Heart student, said she will never forget the morning of April 1, 1999, when an announcement came over a loudspeaker warning residents in a predominantly Muslim area of her hometown in Kosovo to leave or be killed.
		In her senior speech to fellow students and in an interview with the Clarion Herald, Canolli talked about her life and how she was able to endure hardships beyond what most teens will ever have to go through in their lives.
		VLORA CANOLLI, a senior at Sacred Heart Academy, was honored as one of PBS's Louisiana's Young Heros.
	clarionherald.org /20030423/art003.htm (1164 words)

	Institute for War and Peace Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The tough sailors on board are on the lookout for inflatable smuggling speedboats like the one that sank in the early hours of January 9, causing the deaths from exposure of 20 Albanians from poverty-stricken Shkodra.
		Ilir Manco, commander of the Vlora naval district, admits that even when his vessels spot one of the tiny boats — which is unlikely in the poor visibility in the dark - there is precious little they can do about it.
		On January 20, Ilir Rrokaj, head of traffic police in Vlora, was arrested on suspicion of organising the smuggling ring.
	www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200402_479_2_eng.txt (1380 words)

	East European girls face rape, violence in Albania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Many of the women dreamed of a European Eldorado and did not know they were to be sold into prostitution, but their final destination is often the mental hospital in the port town of Vlora in southern Albania.
		Huddled in a corner of a police station in Vlora, her face bruised and swollen, she jumps at the slightest noise.
		From Vlora, at least a dozen women are smuggled into Italy every night, headed for prostitution, and the traffic is constantly increasing.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/may00/hed112.shtml (504 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 99-12-06
		During his stay in Vlora ambassador Bova and the district state senior officials discussed about the relations of different Italian regions with Vlora, the perspective of these relations, the encouragement of the Italian investments in Vlora and others.
		Vlora, December 6 (ata) - By H.Koci - Commando troops take under control Vlora Port, where one of the most important customs in Albania is performing its activity, reported on Monday ATA sources from these troops.
		The settlement of commando troops in Vlora Port is implemented in conformity with the decision of the Government of same days ago.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1999/99-12-06.ata.html (3000 words)

	Welcome to Frosina.org :: An Albanian Immigrant and Cultural Resource
		On June 12, just southwest of Vlora, the garrison of Tepelena held by 400 Italians surrendered, and when the Albanians stormed the inner defenses of Vlora, itself, a terrific battle took place, but the Albanians were driven back with severe losses because of heavy gunfire from the Italian warships.
		The Vlora battle was an unpopular war even in Italy where Italo-Albanians, the Arbereshe, set up a protest that was heard all over Italy, especially in its Chamber of Deputies.
		On July 23, Vlora was again savagely attacked by the Albanians who now gained partial control of the town.
	www.frosina.org /about/infobits.asp?id=156 (704 words)

	Documenti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This will be a decisive factor in making possible the restoration of the public's faith in state institutions and their representatives, the strengthening of Albania's commitment to democratic principals, and the return to stable political conditions, it is stated in the declaration.
		Among the enthusiasm of Vlora's people in the Sopcialist Party's rally in this town, in the course of SP electoral meetings all around Albania, took the floor SPA chairman, Fatos Nano.
		Vlora today has become the symbol of the fight for the real democracy.
	www.ecn.org /est/albania/english/albadoc21.htm (648 words)

	Albania police prevent opposition rally (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Two people died in Vlora and 81 were hurt in riots Monday over the failure of high-risk investment schemes in which thousands of Albanians put their life's savings.
		Many of the funds resembled pyramid schemes, in which early depositors are paid high returns from the deposits of later investors.
		Ethem Kurti, a respected Vlora native, said he had been appointed by the Interior Ministry to replace the unpopular police chief.
	www.jhu.edu /~newslett/02-14-97/News/Albania_police_prevent_opposition_rally.html (477 words)

	Welcome to Frosina.org :: An Albanian Immigrant and Cultural Resource
		That's how important the battle of Vlora was, and it seems rather extraordinary to me that we haven't accorded this particular uprising with the historical meaning that I feel it so richly deserves.
		Italy wanted Vlora very badly because, with the exception of Venice, she would have no naval base on the Adriatic Sea.
		In pursuit of a national program; a league was formed by Albanians in Vlora with the object of bringing control of the city under the provisional government now located in Tirana.
	www.frosina.org /culturehistory/lectures.asp?pf=1&id=118 (2081 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 97-02-06
		"The tense situation in Vlora was a result of the speculative actions of the government and President of the Republic to cheat the depositors", the statement says regarding the demonstration of the Vlora citizens due to the collapse of the "Gjallica" company and other pyramid schemes.
		During the clashes of the Vlora protestors with the police on Wednesday, two policemen were gravely wounded with fire weapons and another one injured with solid objects.
		Zeri i Popullit under the title "Vlora citizens demand their money, Berisha shows them the weapons", reports that in the 'capital' of usuries there were clashes between police and creditors.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1997/97-02-06.ata.html (2343 words)

	CNN - Albanian troubles expose north-south differences - Mar. 11, 1997
		VLORA, Albania (CNN) -- The people of Vlora, the southern stronghold of Albania's rebellion, are trying to put their revolt in order, inviting local police officers loyal to their cause to help reign in the chaos.
		The rebels, who have named themselves the Salvation Committee, say they won't surrender to this government or any other until their demands are met.
		Government troops have dug in north of the Shkumbin River, pulling back to the historic fault line dividing this river country's two major ethnic groups: the Ghegs in the north and the Tosks in the south.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9703/11/albania.split (488 words)

	Untitled Document
		This center is the first of its kind to be opened in Europe and marks a major milestone in the fight against illegal trafficking.
		Vlora is not the origin of the activity; however, its geographic position at the meeting point of the Adriatic and Ionian Seas makes it a popular transit point for moving goods and people from east to west.
		Since opening, the center has supplied the Vlora police with information that led to the seizure of four speedboats used by traffickers.
	www.internationalspecialreports.com /europe/albania/internationalanti.html (535 words)

	ATA Homepage - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		VLORA, FEB 6 (ATA) - By H Koci: At about 11.30 the crowd of the people protesting for the money lost after the bankruptcy of the firm Gajllica, moved from the Suqare of the Flag to that of the Prefecture of Vlora.
		TIRANA, FEB 6 (ATA) - Director of the hospital of Vlora Servet Kodheli told the Ministry of Health in Tirana in a telephone call yesterday that two participants in the protests in Vlora had gone to that hospital yesterday at noon, with light injuries, spokesman of this ministry reports.
		VLORA, FEB 6 (ATA) - At about 17.00, a crowd of over 2 000 people gathered again in the Square of the Flag in the centre of Vlora.
	www.telpress.it /ATA/1997/feb_97/hdarch06.htm (3000 words)

	Albania Receives Port Grant From TDA, 6/13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Albanian Deputy Minister of Transport Ahmet Ceni referred to the development of the two ports as a "national transportation priority." The press release stated that Durres, the larger of the two, is a "critical link" between the Mediterranean and the Balkan region, handling 85% of the international maritime traffic.
		Albanian Deputy Minister of Transport Ahmet Ceni identified the development of the Corridor VIII ports at Durres and Vlora as a national transportation priority.
		Vlora is a smaller port, and the poor condition of its facilities restricts it to handling general cargo traffic.
	www.usembassy.it /file2000_06/alia/a0061610.htm (515 words)

	ANIH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The founding and later development of the city of Tirana were made possible by its geographic position on a fertile plain, rich in forest lands and water, and crossroads of the Adriatic and eastern Albania, and throug
		Vlora lies on the country`s southern part and the Adriatic washes it.
		Vlora is a large industrial, commercial and communication center.
	www.anih.com.al /english/rubrika.asp?p=1&id=34 (272 words)

	DKS: Shots fired in Albania after curfew
		In Fieri, trucks and cars from Vlora surrounded the headquarters of an army division and opened fire.
		State television reported an arsenal in Vlora was looted.
		In Vlora, 46 students early Monday ended a hunger strike they began Feb. 21, discouraged by the declaration of a state of emergency.
	www.stater.kent.edu /stories_old/97spr/030497/w2a.html (767 words)

	[MedWetCoast] - Activity organized in 5 June 2003 - World Environment Day, by the Albanian MedWetCoast Project and the ...
		In Zverneci inland, assisted by the Education Directorate of Vlora Region, the World Environmental Day brings together the pupils of the artistic school "Naim Frasheri" of Vlora, and the pupils of Narta and Zverneci schools who singed and danced in the green area of the inland.
		The participants were representatives from the Vlora institutions, Vlora Municipality, Narte and Novosela communes, NGO`s representatives, school students, the community of the Narta and Zverneci villages etc. The Minister of Environment and the Prefect of Vlora gave their greetings to the audience.
		A meeting was organized in Kusum Baba, Vlora hill, with the participation of the local authorities, representatives of OECD, World Vision, UNOPS located in Vlora, environmental NGO`s, representatives of the institutions, civil society, media, etc.
	www.medwetcoast.com /article.php3?id_article=185 (477 words)

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