Fan S. Noli
Theofan Stilian Noli, better known as Fan Noli was an Albanian writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who served as prime minister and regent of Albania in 1924 during the June Revolution.
Fan Noli was born in 1882 in the Albanian community of Ibrik Tepe, Eastern Thrace as Theofanus Stylianos Mavromatis. He was an Albanian of the Eastern Orthodox faith. As a young man, Noli wandered throughout the Mediterranean Basin, living in Athens, Greece, Alexandria, Egypt and Odessa, Russia, and supported himself as an actor and translator. As well as his native Albanian, he spoke many languages such as Greek, English, French, Turkish, and Arabic. The Greek diplomat and author Alexis Kyrou claims that Noli had not yet discovered his Albanian patriotism when he was still a teacher in the Greek schools of Alexandria and had the name Theophanis Mavromatis. Through his contacts with the Albanian expatriate movement, he became an ardent supporter of his countrys nationalist movement and moved to the United States in 1906. He first worked in Buffalo, New York, in a lumber mill and then moved to Boston, Massachusetts and worked as an operator on a machine which stamped labels on cans.
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