Ilias Vrioni


Ilias Bey Vrioni 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 to Mehmet Ali Pasha of the Vrioni family and Hysnije hanëm of the Vokopola family. His household had great chifliks in the surroundings of Berat, Fier, and in the Myzeqe plain, formerly Ottoman cities and regions, presently in Albania. 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.
Ilias Vrioni 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.
Ilias Vrioni was decorated in 1920s with the order of Grand officier de la Légion d'honneur of the French Republic.

Political Activity