VANI BURDA
1875-1949Jovan Burda, known as Vani Burda, was born in the city of Korça, then the capital of an administrative division of the Ottoman Empire. In his youth, like many other young people from these parts, he chose the path of emigration for economic reasons to Romania. In Bucharest, since the beginning of the 19th century, there was an important colony of Albanians, who, in 1884, formed their own patriotic society, "Drita," which also published its ow read more...