12 Facts About Qemal Karaosmani

Qemal bej Karaosmani was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence, and an activist of Albanian education.

Qemal Karaosmani served as General Secretary and briefly as Minister of Agriculture in the Provisional Government of Albania.

Qemal Karaosmani got his first studies in the Ottoman school of his home town.

Qemal Karaosmani got transferred in Berat where he was in charge of the Cadastral Office, this is where he met Aishe Resuli his wife.

In November 1912, Qemal Karaosmani was elected by the Berat leadership as a delegate in the Assembly of Vlora.

Qemal Karaosmani signed the act of the Independence Declaration as "Qemal Elbasani".

Qemal Karaosmani would be appointed later by Ismail Qemali as first secretary, and by late November 1913 Minister of Agriculture of Albania.

Qemal Karaosmani supported the Congress of Lushnje of 1920, and the government of Sulejman Delvina which came out of it.

Qemal Karaosmani was elected in the National Assembly twice: first representing Berat out of elections of December 27,1923, and those of May 17,1925 which marked the First Albanian Republic.

Qemal Karaosmani died in 1948, never appreciated by the communists, and without any official ceremony.

Qemal Karaosmani's family donated in 1962 the original pen with which he had signed the act of Independence Declaration to the Albanian National Archives.

Qemal Karaosmani got married in 1900 to Aishe Resuli, a woman from one of the richest and most powerful families of Berat.