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Ali Dino
Ali Dino in 1930
Ali Dino in 1930
Born1889
Preveza, Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, modern day Greece
Died1938
Athens, Greece
Occupationcartoonist, politician
NationalityOttoman, Greek

Ali Dino (Greek: Αλή Ντίνο), also known as Ali Dino Bey (Albanian: Ali Bej Dino, Greek: Αλή Ντίνο Μπέης 1889-1938) was an Albanian cartoonist and a Member of the Greek Parliament.

Dino was born in Preveza, in the Janina Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire in 1889, to Rasih Dino and is the grandson of Abedin Dino, one of the main contributors of the Albanian independence. He became one of the most famous cartoonists in Greece, and was elected in the Greek Parliament twice for the Preveza prefecture.[1] Dino is the founder of the Party of the Chameria, that represented the local Cham Albanian community[1] as well as of the Greek Albanian Friendship Society. He died in Athens, Greece in 1938.

References

  1. ^ a b Mavrogordatos, George Th. Stillborn republic: social coalitions and party strategies in Greece, 1922-1936. University of California Press. California, 1983.