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Ilias bej Vrioni (1 January 1882 – 12 March 1932) was an Albanian politician and landowner. He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and served as Prime Minister of Albania three times.




Biography


Ilias Vrioni was born in 1882 in Berat, in the Janina Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, modern day Albania, to Mehmet Ali Pasha of the Vrioni family and Hysnije Vokopola of the Vokopola family, making Ilias maternally a relative to Ferid Vokopola. His household had great chifliks in the surroundings of Berat, Fier, and the Myzeqe plain. His father was a high dignitary of the administration of the Ottoman Empire and collaborator of Abdyl Frashëri at the time of the Congress of Berlin, his mother came from a local landowning family that had their chifliks in the surroundings of Vokopolë.
He was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912. He served three times as Prime Minister and five times as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He died in Paris in 1932, while serving his second mandate as the Plenipotentiary Minister of the Kingdom of Albania to Paris and London.
He was decorated in 1920s with the order of Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur of the French Republic.




Political Activity


Prime Minister of Albania: 19 November 1920 – 1 July 1921
Prime Minister of Albania: 11 July 1921 – 16 October 1921
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania: 30 Mars 1924 – 27 May 1924
Prime Minister of Albania and Minister of Foreign Affairs: 24 December 1924 – 5 January 1925
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania: 12 February 1927 – 21 October 1927
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania and Vice-Minister of Justice: 26 October 1927 – 21 May 1928
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania: 11 May 1928 – 1 September 1928
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania: 5 September 1928 – 13 January 1929
Plenipotentiary Minister of Albania in Paris and London: 1925 – 1926
Plenipotentiary Minister of Albania in Paris and London: 1929 – 1932




See also


Omar Pasha Vrioni II
Sami Bey Vrioni




References






See also


History of Albania
List of prime ministers of Albania

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