Albanian Renaissance

The Albanian National Awakening (Albanian: Rilindja Kombëtare) (also known as the National Renaissance or National Revival), refers to the period in the history of Albania from 1870 until the declaration of independence in 1912. The activists are called Revivalists (Albanian: Rilindas).

The National Awakening began in the middle of the 19th century and lasted until 1912, when the Albanians declared the creation of an independent Albania, which included the area what is now Albania and the neighbouring territories. On December 20, 1912 the Conference of Ambassadors in London recognized an independent Albania within its present-day borders.

After the fall of the Yanina Pashalik, the power and influence of the Albanian beys had faded. The remaining beys thus attempted to restore their rule. An assembly was held in Berat in 1828. In this Convention, the leaders were Ismail Bey Qemali, Zylyftar Poda and Shahin bej Delvina. The Ottoman Empire tried to prevent the rise of local beys, which presented a menace to centralized power. In 1830, the Sublime Porte sent an expeditionary force under the command of Reşid Mehmed Pasha to suppress the local Albanian beys. On hearing the news of the Ottoman forces' arrival, the three most powerful local chiefs, Zylyftar Poda, accompanied by the remains of Ali Pasha's faction, Veli Bey (whose power base was around Yannina), and Arslan Bey, along with other less powerful beys, began to prepare their forces to resist a probable Ottoman attack. Realising the seriousness of the situation and the danger of a general uprising, Reşid Mehmed Pasha invited the Albanian beys to a meeting on the pretext that they would be rewarded for their loyalty to the Porte. The beys however, were all killed along with their guards.

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