1. Kristo Dako, son of Anastas Dako, was an Albanian patriot, author and educator of the early 20th century.
13 Facts About Kristo Dako
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Kristo Dako was born in Korce, in the Manastir Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in 1880.
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Kristo Dako migrated to Bucharest, where he finished high school and later the Faculty of Mathematics.
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Kristo Dako was the strong supporter of the thesis that Albanians are descendants of the ancient Illyrians, Epirotes, and Macedonians, one of the pillars of Albanian Nationalism.
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From 1906 to 1913, Kristo Dako studied theology at the Graduate School of Theology of Oberlin College, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity.
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Kristo Dako represented Shpresa at the Congress of the Subjugated People of Turkey held in Vienna, 1902 and presented proposals relating to the creation of Albanian schools, Albanian language liturgy being conducted in Orthodox churches, and release of all political prisoners.
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Kristo Dako was the husband of Sevasti Qiriazi, Albanian patriot and pioneer of female education in Albania, from the well known Qiriazi family of Monastir.
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Kristo Dako is remembered for initiating and opening the first Albanian school in US in 1908, located in Natick, MA.
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Kristo Dako returned shortly in Albania in June 1911, right in the middle of the Albanian Revolt of 1911, together with Charles Richard Crane of Chicago.
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Kristo Dako was released with Crane's intervention, and his persecutor Sevket Turgut Pasha immediately removed from the Ottoman authorities.
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Kristo Dako was editor of the Dielli magazine and chairman of Vatra, the Pan-Albanian Federation of America in 1913.
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Kristo Dako met twice with then United States president Woodrow Wilson.
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Kristo Dako became minister of education in one of Ahmet Zogu's cabinets.