Abedin bey Dino, Abedin Pasha was an Albanian patriot, politician, ideologue and diplomat.
13 Facts About Abedin Dino
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Abedin Dino was from Chameria, and he was born in Preveza on 23 March 1843, to one of the most notable and noble families of the city.
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Abedin Dino was the brother of Vesel Bey Dino and his father Ahmed Dino Bey was an Albanian military leader and politician.
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Abedin Dino studied in the Zosimaia School and the University of Paris.
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Abedin Dino strongly supported the territorial integrity of Albanian inhabited lands remaining within the Ottoman state.
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Abedin Dino became a prominent League of Prizren leader in 1878 and a member of its central committee representing Chameria.
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On 11 January 1879, a meeting in Preveza of Albanian notables and leaders at Abedin Dino's house agreed to oppose Epirus joining Greece, including through the use of military force if an unsatisfactory agreement was imposed by the Great Powers and to express that view to the Berlin Congress.
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Abedin Dino thought that he got the position due to the sultan wanting to conciliate the British.
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Abedin Dino argued to keep both Jannina, the regional capital and Preveza, its trading port within the Ottoman state.
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However, Abedin Dino placed his own people as governors of various areas including his brother in law Kazim Bey in Preveza.
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Abedin Bej Dino was a poet, publisher, writer, and translator.
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Abedin Dino translated Albanian language poems of the 13th-century Persian poet, and Sufi mystic Rumi.
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Abedin Dino's son, Rasih Dino was a co-founder of the first Albanian school in the city of Filiates and in 1913 he was the head of the delegation of Albania that signed the Treaty of London that recognized Albania an independent state.