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Sevasti Qiriazi-Dako
(Sevastia D. Kyrias)
Sevasti Qiriazi-Dako
Bornca. 1870
Manastir, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
DiedAugust 30, 1949(1949-08-30) (aged 77–78)
Tirana, Albania
Resting placeTirana, Varrezat e Sharrës
NationalityAlbanian
Other namesSevasti D. Kyrias, Sevasti Kyrias-Dako, Sevasti Qirias
EducationBachelor of Arts
Alma materAmerican College for Girls at Constantinople (B.A.)
Occupation(s)Educator, Missionary
SpouseKristo Dako
ChildrenAleksandër Dako, Gjergj Dako
Parent(s)Dhimitër Qiriazi, Maria Qiriazi (Vodica)
RelativesGjerasim Qiriazi, Gjergj Qiriazi, Kristo Qiriazi, Parashqevi Qiriazi
Awards People's Teacher
Honor of the Nation
Order for Patriotic Activity
Symbol of the City (Tirana)[1]

Signature

Sevasti Qiriazi-Dako (Sevasti D. Kyrias) (ca. 1871–1949) was an Albanian patriot, educator, Protestant missionary, author, pioneer of Albanian female education, and activist of the Albanian National Awakening.

Life and career

Early life

Sevasti was born ca. 1870[2] to the patriotic Qiriazi (Kyrias) family of Tërnovë, Monastir, in today's North Macedonia.[3] She was the sixth of ten children.[4]: 41  Her family's religious background was Orthodox, and she began attending a Greek-language primary school at age four.[4]: 43  In her youth she learned several languages (Albanian, Greek, Bulgarian, Wallachian, Turkish, English).[4]: 44  She and her family came into close contact with Albanian patriots and American Protestant missionaries who operated a school and conducted religious services near their home in Monastir.[4]: 43–45  Sevasti was enrolled in the Americans' school and graduated with the equivalent of a high school diploma in July 1888.[5]

Education

Sevasti attended the American College for Girls at Constantinople from 1888–1891. Her brother Rev. Gjerasim Qiriazi arranged her enrollment.[4]: 63–64  She was admitted as a sophomore and graduated in 1891 with a class of eight women and received a Bachelor of Arts degree,[6] becoming the first Albanian female to complete a college education.[4]: 63–64  Her purpose for attending college was to prepare herself to help her brother Gjerasim open a girls' school in Albania.[4]: 66  Sevasti identified her key influencers in college as: Clara Hamlin (the college's principal and the daughter of Cyrus Hamlin), Florence A. Fensham, Mary Mills Patrick, Ida Prime, Caroline Borden, and the Bulgarian Grandinaroff family.[4]: 68–70  Gjerasim Qiriazi invited the influential Albanian Frashëri brothers (Abdyl Frashëri, Sami Frashëri and Naim Frashëri) to attend Sevasti's graduation. Naim Frashëri used his role in the Ottoman government to register her diploma officially and obtain an irade (official decree) for the opening of the first Albanian school for girls in Kortcha.[4]: 79 

Protestant missionary activity

Though Orthodox Christian by birth, Sevasti joined the Protestant community founded by her brother Gjerasim.[7] In Kortcha she led Bible studies and prayer meetings for women.[8][9][10] She was a "Bible Woman" and was financed by the ABCFM's Woman's Board of Missions[11][12] and the Bible Lands Missions' Aid Society.[13] She referred to herself as a missionary when traveling to the USA to visit Ellen Stone and John Henry House.[14]

The Kortcha Girls School (1891–1914)

Founding and operations

After her graduation from college, Sevasti returned to Monastir and then to Kortcha, where she joined her brother Gjerasim in opening an Albanian-language school for girls. Sevasti was its director. The school operated under difficult conditions including poverty, prejudice against female education, difficulty in obtaining books, political opposition from local Ottoman authorities, and politcal and ecclesiastical opposition from the Greek Orthodox Church. The school received significant visitors such as Edith Durham in 1901 and Henry Brailsford in 1904.[4]: 102, 106–107 

Religious instruction

At the time of its existence, the school was known as a Protestant Christian school.[15] Its founders were Evangelicals,[16] it was supported by Protestant organizations,[17] it required religious subjects with biblical texts as part of its educational curriculum,[18][19] and its premises were used for Evangelical Sunday School and worship services.[20] However, the school welcomed students of all religions and its teachers did not require conversion to Protestantism.[21] It was praised by Albanians of all religions and classes as being a "national nest" (fole kombëtare).[22]

Leadership

When Gjerasim Qiriazi died in 1894, Sevasti Qiriazi (at approximately 23 years old) assumed full responsibility for the Girls School.[4]: 93–95  She shared leadership over the following years with Luka Tira, Fanka Efthim, Thanas Sina, Grigor Cilka, Gjergj Qiriazi, and Gjon Ciko, and she eventually solicited the help of the American Protestant missionaries Phineas and Violet Bond Kennedy, who arrived in Korça in 1908 (Violet was the daughter of an American Protestant missionary in Monastir, Lewis Bond, and was Sevasti's close friend throughout childhood and college).

Closure

The school continued to function through 1914, when Greek hostilities and the outbreak of World War I forced its closure.

First visit to the United States

In summer 1904, after 13 years as director of the Albanian school for girls in Korça, Parashqevi Qiriazi became director of the school and Sevasti Qiriazi traveled to the United States. She arrived in New York in August 1904, and visited friends in New York, Boston, and Chicago, speaking about Albania at various women's societies. She resided for one month with Ellen Stone and visited Jane Addams and Hull House. She called her visit to the USA "a glimpse of liberty."[4]: 109–112  During her return to Albania in May 1905, she visited London, Paris, and Vienna before stopping in Bucharest, where she met Pandeli Evangjeli and her future husband Christo Dako (1880-1941), a recent graduate of the University of Bucharest and general secretary of the Albanian "Dituria" society. Sevasti recruited Dako to prepare the first Albanian textbooks in mathematics.[4]: 113–114 

Early national influence

In 1908, Sevasti was invited to represent her Girls School at the Congress of Monastir, which aimed to settle the Albanian alphabet question. Sevasti could not attend, but her sister Parashqevi attended in her place.[23] A delegation from the Congress visited the Girls School in Kortcha after the conclusion of the Congress, including Luigj Gurakuqi, Fehim Zavalani and Nyzhet Vrioni. In 1909 Sevasti was invited in her role as director of the school to take part in the Congress of Elbasan which aimed to address national education in Albania. She attended with her brother Gjergj Qiriazi.[4]: 121–128 

Marriage and children

Sevasti was married to Kristo Dako on August 4, 1910.[24] The ceremony was performed by Protestant missionary Rev. Charles Telford Erickson.[25] They had two children, Aleksandër "Skënder" Dako (1910–1995) and Gjergj Dako (1913–1949). The full English rendering of their names was Alexander Gerasim Dako and George Charles Dako (namesakes for her two deceased brothers Gjerasim and Gjergj).[26] Both boys studied for eight years at Robert College.[27]

Friendship with Charles Crane

In 1911, Sevasti and her husband Kristo Dako were visited in Monastir by American businessman Charles Richard Crane, who was on the board of the American College for Girls at Constantinople and sought to learn more about Albania and the Near East. Crane had learned about Sevasti and Kristo through Edward I. Bosworth, dean of Oberlin Seminary and formerly K. Dako's professor at Oberlin.[4]: 139–140  They maintained friendly and working relations for many years,[28] later spending several summer holidays at Mr. and Mrs. Crane's summer home at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.[4]: 171, 184–185 

Exile from Albania and journey to the USA

In 1914, due to hostilities with Greek forces in Korça, Sevasti, her husband, and their two children were forced to flee Albania, and the Girls School was closed. They spent nearly 12 months living in Bucharest and Sofia before emigrating to the United States in 1915 and settling in Natick and Southbridge, Massachusetts, where she would assist her husband in opening the first Albanian school in America at the local YMCA[4]: 173–174  They resettled in Boston (Jamaica Plain) where Sevasti assisted her sister in publishing the semi-monthly periodical Yll'i Mëngjezit / Morning Star (1917–1920), and where she and her husband became more involved in Vatra and the Albanian national cause.[4]: 175–180 

Return to Albania

In 1922 Sevasti Qiriazi and her children returned to Albania, where her husband had previously returned to work with the Albanian government.[4]: 191–193 

The Kyrias Institute (1922–1933)

Together with her husband Kristo Dako and her sister Parashqevi Qiriazi, Sevasti founded a new institution of female education in Kamëz, near Tirana. Sevasti returned to Albania in the early 1920s. She became one of the directors.[29]

Internment

She and her sister were imprisoned and deported in the Banjica concentration camp near Belgrade[4]: 217–220  by the pro-Nazi units led by Xhaferr Deva for their anti-fascist views during World War II.[29][30][31] They returned to Tirana after the war.

Postwar years

Because of Dako's affiliation with King Zog, and him serving as minister in one of Zog's cabinets, Dako's name was thrown in darkness during the communist regime after World War II.[32] His family was persecuted (including his sister in law Parashqevi) and two sons were arrested and imprisoned.[4]: 220–221 [30] Tired of many endeavors of her life, and stroke from her son's death, Sevasti died in August 1949.

National influence

In 1908, the school was represented at the Congress of Monastir which aimed to settle the Albanian alphabet question. Although Sevasti could not attend (her sister Parashqevi attended in her place), a delegation from the Congress visited the Girls School in Kortcha after the conclusion of the Congress. In 1909 Sevasti was invited in her role as director of the school to take part in the Congress of Elbasan which aimed to address national education in Albania. She attended with her brother Gjergj Qiriazi.[4]: 121–128 

Published Works

The following works or articles are known to have been written by Sevasti Qiriazi-Dako:

  • "Albanian Girls' School Report". The Star in the East (56), October 1896. London: Bible Lands or Turkish Missions' Aid Society, 3.
  • "Girls' School, Koritza, Albania". The Star in the East (58), April 1897. London: Bible Lands or Turkish Missions' Aid Society, 6.
  • "Këng' e foshnjavet ndë djep", Hristomathi (Sofje: Mbrothësia, 1902), f. 93.
  • "Kur dotë bënemi nëna", Hristomathi (Sofje: Mbrothësia, 1902), f. 108.
  • "Përse bënenë pemët t'ëmbëla nëpër drurët?", Hristomathi (Sofje: Mbrothësia, 1902), f. 110.
  • "Rrobat e Olimbisë", Hristomathi (Sofje: Mbrothësia, 1902), f. 112.
  • "Të-shkruajturit e babajt", Hristomathi (Sofje: Mbrothësia, 1902), f. 117.
  • "Vjejtj' e Diturisë", Hristomathi (Sofje: Mbrothësia, 1902), f. 230.
  • "Fjalë / Zonja edhe Zotërinj" (fjalime të Sevasti Qiriazit për ceremonitë e mbylljes së viteve shkollor), Hristomathi (Sofje: Mbrothësia, 1902), f. 291–295, 298–302, 303–308, 308–313.
  • “The History of the Evangelistic Work”. The Orient 11. Constantinople: The Bible House, 1910, p. 4-5 (reprinted in The Missionary Review of the World 34. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1911, p. 851–853).
  • Gramatikë Elementare për Shkollat Filltare (Manastir: Shtypshkronja “Tregtare Nërkombëtare”, 1912).
  • Mjeshtëria për të shkruarë letra (Farmingham, Mass: Journal Press, 1917).
  • “Kujtime të paharruara” (series of 18 articles published in the Boston periodical Yll' i Mëngjezit from 1917–1918), republished as: "Kujtime të paharruar" dhe shkrime të tjera (Tirana: ISSHP, 2022).
  • "Një pjekje me Naim Benj Frashërin", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 1, nr. 3, 15 February 1917, p.75–77.
  • "Petro Nini Luarasi, shtylla e zjarrtë e Kolonjës", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 1, nr. 6, 30 March 1917, p. 176–178.
  • "Dr. Mihal Turtulli, ish-ministër i arsimit", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 1, nr. 8, 30 April 1917, p. 236–237.
  • "Miss Carolina Borden", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 1, nr. 11, 15 June 1917, p. 335–336.
  • "Prezident Mary Mills Patrick, Ph.D., direktoresha e kolezhit çupave në Stamboll", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 1, nr. 10, 31 May 1917, p. 297–299.
  • "Miku i Shqipërisë Zoti Charles Woods", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 2, nr. 8, 31 December 1917, p. 236–237.
  • "Të çdukurit e Manushaqes", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 2, nr. 8, 31 December 1917, p. 239–248.
  • "Spiro Bellkamen", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 2, nr. 9, 15 January 1918, p. 273–274.
  • "Mundimi i ndërgjegjes", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 2, nr. 11, 16 February 1918, p. 340–344.
  • "Gjaku ujë s’bëhet", Yll’i Mëngjezit, vol. 3, nr. 5, August 1918, p. 142–146.
  • Albania's Rights, Hopes and Aspirations 1918.
  • My Life (completed in 1938 as an unpublished memoir[33] and published in 2016, Tirana, ISSHP). Translated into Albanian and published as Jeta ime (Skopje: Instituti i Trashëgimisë Shpirtërore e Kulturore të Shqiptarëve, 2016).

Legacy

In cinema and literature

  • The Kortcha School for Girls was immortalized in Albanian cinema by the beloved film Mësonjëtorja (The School) (1979). The name of the main character, Sevasti Qiriazi, was changed to Dafina (played by Roza Anagnosti). Consistent with the official atheistic and censorial policies of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, all religion was portrayed as anti-Albanian and the school was identified as completely non-religious (laike).[34]
  • A drama entitled Foleja Kombëtare (The National Nest) about the Girls School and Sevasti Qiriazi was written by staff and students of Instituti Kyrias in ca. 1931. This play was published as a book in 2008[35] with an introduction by Ismail Kadare, but the authorship was incorrectly attributed to Lumo Skendo.

Commemorative items

  • In 2017 Sevati Qiriazi's image was among those featured on a postage stamp by the Post of Kosovo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation and its Albanian counterpart.[36]
  • In 2022 the Bank of Albania made public its decision to mint a commemorative coin bearing Sevasti Qiriazi-Dako's image, to be released in 2023.[37]

In academia

  • On 26 October 2016 the University of Korça hosted an academic conference honoring Sevasti Qiriazi and the Girls School on the 125th anniversary of its founding.[38]

In the Evangelical Protestant community

  • For her role as a Christian missionary worker[39] and "Bible Woman"[40] in Korça, the Albanian Protestant community honors Sevasti Qiriazi as one the early members of the Albanian Evangelical community founded by her brother Gjerasim Qiriazi.[41]

Namesake schools, institutions, etc.

  • Shkolla 9-vjeçare "Sevasti Qiriazi" in Korça
  • Shkolla Fillore e Mesme e Ulët "Motrat Qiriazi” in Klina[42]
  • The "Sevasti Qiriazi" high school in Tiranë.[43]
  • Kolegji Universitar Qiriazi was started in ca. 2017 on the property of the orignal Kyrias Institute (1922–1933) in Kamëz, Albania.[44]
  • The Albanian-American Women's Organization (AAWO–Motrat Qiriazi) in New York City.[45]
  • In Tirana there is a small road named "Rr. Sevasti Qirjazi" [sic].[46]

Miscellaneous

Common myths and inaccuracies

  • It is frequently reported without citation that Naim Frashëri gave Sevasti Qiriazi the opportunity to attend college in Istanbul, but it was her brother Gjerasim who arranged her education with the aid of Protestant missionaries such as Alexander Thomson.
  • It is often said that Sevasti Qiriazi graduated from Robert College. More accurately, she graduated from its sister institution, “American College for Girls at Constantinople” which was founded by the Woman's Board of Missions.[48][49] This college merged with Robert College in 1971, 80 years after her graduation.
  • It has been alleged that Sevasti was not Albanian, but rather Vlach, but her autobiography refutes this plainly ("I am an Albanian"), as do other sources.
  • During times of censorship under communism, Sevasti's School for Girls in Kortcha was said to have been completely non-religious (laike), but this myth has been debunked by archival research.[50]
  • It is commonly reported that Sevasti attended the First Congress of Manastir in 1908. In truth, she could not attend due to her responsibilities in Kortcha,[51] so her sister Parashqevi went as the representative of the Korça Girls School.[52]

References

  1. ^ "Jeta e Sevasti Qiriazit, vjen në shqip jetëshkrimi i "Mësueses së Popullit"". Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  2. ^ Data from official documentation is as yet inconclusive about the precise year of her birth (probably 1870, 1871 or 1872). 1870 is the year indicated on her gravestone.
  3. ^ de Haan, Francisca; Daskalova Krasimira; Loutfi Anna (2006). A Biographical Dictionary of Women's Movements and Feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe, 19th and 20th Centuries. Central European University Press. pp. 454–457. ISBN 9789637326394. Retrieved 2014-10-22.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Kyrias-Dako, Sevasti (2022). My Life: the Autobiography of the Pioneer of Female Education in Albania (2nd ed.). Tirana: IAPS. ISBN 978-1946244420.
  5. ^ Diploma at: Arkivi Qendror i Shtetit, Tirana, AQSH F52 D18
  6. ^ See diploma at: Arkivi Qendror i Shtetit, Tirana, AQSH F52 D18
  7. ^ "Albania". Missionary News from Bulgaria (43): 8. March 12, 1893.
  8. ^ ABCFM-B, 12 March 1893, nr. 43, 8
  9. ^ Sevasti D. Kyrias to Mrs. H. D. Hume, 29 August 1896, ABCFM 9.5.1, Woman’s Board of Missions 1873–1947, Supplementary Papers and Correspondence
  10. ^ Twenty-Third Annual Report of the New Haven Branch of the Woman’s Board of Missions (1894), 64–65
  11. ^ Woman’s Board of Missions Annual Report 1895, 7
  12. ^ ABCFM Missionary Herald 1891, 351
  13. ^ "Grants and Payments to Special Objects". Star in the East (67): 32. Jul 1899.
  14. ^ “List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the U.S. Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival (Holland-American Line)”, 30 August 1904, ISSHP
  15. ^ Konica, Faik. "Kleri grek edhe Shkolla Protestante e Çupave në Korçë”. Albania, viti 9, nr. 9, 1905, 179: "Siç e di e gjithë bota, Korça ka një shkollë protestante shqip për çupat."
  16. ^ Kalendari Kombiar, 8 nëntor 1904 – “Tani shpejt dëgjojmë se u mbyll edhe ndë Korçë shkolla e çunavet po punon vetëm, shkollë e vashavet e cila u hap më 1891 prej ungjillorëvet."
  17. ^ Kyrias, Sevasti (October 1896). "Albanian Girls' School Report". The Star in the East (56). Bible Lands or Turkish Missions' Aid Society: 3.
  18. ^ Sevasti Qiriazi, “Fjalë”, në: Gjergj Qiriazi, përg., Hristomathi, vëll. I (1902), 291–295
  19. ^ Myzyri, Hysni. Shkollat e para kombëtare shqipe. Tiranë: Instituti i Studimeve Pedagogjike, 1973, 217 (facsimile of the subject list).
  20. ^ https://www.academia.edu/75751804/Were_the_Kyrias_siblings_Kristo_Dako_and_the_Kortcha_Girls_School_Protestant_A_response_to_the_re_emergence_of_a_communist_era_narrative, p. 44–49
  21. ^ Konica, Faik. "Kleri grek edhe Shkolla Protestante e Çupave në Korçë”. Albania, viti 9, nr. 9, 1905, 179: "Qëllimi i kësaj shkolle nuk është të përhapë protestantizmin por dritën e dijes dhe të lirisë."
  22. ^ “Instuti Kyrias: Përmbledhje historike, 1891–1931”, Foleja kombëtare: Broshurë komemorative (Tiranë: Gutenberg, 1931), 83–85.
  23. ^ Grameno, Mihal (May–June 1918). "I pari Kongres Kombëtar". Yll’i Mëngjezit. 3 (2–3): 42.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link)
  24. ^ Oberlin College Archives, Box 234, Folder 2812 "Dako, Kristo Anastas 1913 DB."
  25. ^ Edwin Jacques, “To Albania With Love – the Evangel”, IAPS-EJ, 136, 142–143.
  26. ^ Quinquennial Catalogue Questionnaire, Oct 15, 1925, Oberlin College Archives, Subgroup II, Theological Instruction, Special Programs, Kyrias Girls School, "Dako, Kristo Anastas".
  27. ^ Uran Asllani, Studentët shqiptarë të Robert Kolegjit Amerikan të Stambollit dhe veprimtaria atdhetare e tyre. Tiranë: Ilar, 2005, 59, 104–107.
  28. ^ Dako, Christo (1919x). Albania, the Master Key to the Near East. Boston: E.L. Grimes. p. Dedication, 92-93, 215-223.
  29. ^ a b Sabile Keçmezi-Basha, Parashqevi Qiriazi, diplomatja e vetme grua në Konferencën e Paqes në Paris [Parashqevi Qiriazi, the only woman diplomat in the Paris Peace Conference] (in Albanian), kosova-sot.info, archived from the original on 2015-09-27, retrieved 2014-10-22, Parashqevi Qiriazi, u kthye në atdhe më 1921, edhe më tej ajo ndoqi me interes dhe mbështeti zhvillimet politike në Shqipëri, pa pushuar së shkruari për çështjen kombëtare. Në ndërkohë u bë një nga themelueset dhe drejtueset kryesore të Institutit Femëror "Kyrias" në Tiranë e Kamëz (1922-1933), duke e shndërruar institucionin në një nga shkollat e mesme më serioze në Shqipëri. Për shkak të qëndrimit të saj antifashist, më 15 tetor 1943 u internua nga Gestapoja në kampin Anhalt (Banjicë). I mbijetoi vdekjes dhe pas mbarimit të luftës u kthye në atdhe. Më 17 dhjetor 1970, vdiq në Tiranë.
  30. ^ a b Luarasi, Petro, Familja atdhetare Qiriazi dhe mjeshtri i madh i turpit (T.B.) (in Albanian), PrishtinaPress, archived from the original on February 1, 2014, Si rezultat i kësaj të motrat dhe familjet e tyre u bënë object përndjekjesh nga ana e regjimit. Dy djemtë e Sevastisë u burgosën si spiunë. Djali i vogël , Gjergji, duke mos u bërë dot ballë torturave, vrau veten më 1949. Pak më vonë vdiq edhe Sevastia, nga hidhërimi i thellë për humbjen e të birit.[As a result of this both sisters and their families became target of persecution from the regime. Both sons of Sevasti were imprisoned as "spies". The younger son, Gjergj, not resisting to the tortures, killed himself in 1949. Soon after Sevasti died, from the big despair of losing her son...]
  31. ^ Luarasi, Skender (1980-12-14), "Parashqevi Qiriazi", Drita: 12
  32. ^ Robert Elsie (2010-03-19). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Historical Dictionaries of Europe. Vol. 75 (II ed.). Scarecrow Press. pp. 97–98. ISBN 978-0810861886.
  33. ^ Dako, Sevasti Kyrias. Memoirs. Cambridge: S.n., 1995. Print.
  34. ^ Asllani, Persida; Hosaflook, David (2017). The Albanian Book and Protestant Enterprise: a 200-year Cultural Journey. Tirana: National Library of Albania and IAPS. p. 160-161. ISBN 978-9928-4202-7-5.
  35. ^ Skëndo, Lumo (2008). Delvina, Sherif; Malltezi, Luan (eds.). Foleja kombëtare: dramë historike me katër akte. Tirana: Onufri. ISBN 978-99943-42-67-9.
  36. ^ "Promovohet pulla postare "500 vjet reformacion"". Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  37. ^ https://www.bankofalbania.org/Shtypi/Njoftimet_per_shtyp/Vendimmarrja_e_Keshillit_Mbikeqyres_ne_mbledhjen_e_dates_7_shtator_2022.html
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  39. ^ “List or Manifest of Alien Passengers for the U.S. Immigration Officer at Port of Arrival (Holland-American Line)”, 30 August 1904, ISSHP. Sevasti Kyrias identifies herself as “missionary, friend of Dr. Henry House”.
  40. ^ Woman’s Board of Missions Annual Report 1895, 7; ABCFM-MH 1891, 351.
  41. ^ https://evangelicalfocus.com/culture/2031/albanians-celebrate-125th-anniversary-of-the-first-school-for-girls-started-by-evangelicals
  42. ^ "Shkolla Fillore e Mesme e Ulët "Motrat Qiriazi", në Klinë, shënoi ditën e shkollës".
  43. ^ "Përurohen dy shkolla të reja, 'Kiço Blushi' dhe 'Sevasti Qiriazi'". Tema. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  44. ^ https://qiriazi.edu.al/
  45. ^ AAOMQ Official Site
  46. ^ https://goo.gl/maps/AetfQ1Wk92mRebfj9
  47. ^ "Nënat e kombit, historia e motrave Sevasti dhe Parashqevi Qiriazi" [Mothers of the nation: History of sisters Parashqevi and Sevasti Qiriazi] (in Albanian). "Bota Sot" Online. 2012-03-30.
  48. ^ See diploma at: Arkivi Qendror i Shtetit, Tirana, AQSH F52 D18
  49. ^ https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/ead/nnc-ut/ldpd_4492681
  50. ^ Quanrud, John; Hosaflook, David. ""Dëshmi që Shkolla e Vashave e Korçës ishte protestante" in "Vëllezërit dhe Motrat Qiriazi, Kristo Dako dhe Shkolla e Vashave e Korçës, a ishin protestantë?"" (PDF). Dëshmi që Shkolla e Vashave e Korçës ishte protestante. pp. 48–53. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  51. ^ "Kongresi i Parë i Manastirit prej Parashqevi Qiriazit". Arkivi Qendror i Shtetit, Tirana, AQSH F57 D1 f.1
  52. ^ Grameno, Mihal. “I pari Kongres Kombëtar”, Yll’i Mëngjezit 3, no. 2–3 (May and June 1918), p. 42.

Further reading

See also

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