Were the Kyrias siblings, Kristo Dako, and the Kortcha Girls School Protestant? A response to the re-emergence of a communist-era narrative

One of the key Albanian families connected with the Evangelical Protestant Movement was the Kyrias family and, to a lesser degree, Kristo Dako. During the Albanian communist period, however, historians played down and explained away the religious connections of...

George Kyrias’ Report of the Albanian Congress of Monastir (1908) for the Bible Society

The first Congress of Monastir in 1908 aimed to gather key Albanian figures to select a standard alphabet for the Albanian language. The congress was arguably less about the alphabet and more about national identity and unification at a strategic time, a few years...