Who Was Paraskevi Kyrias?

Few women have undertaken what Paraskevi D. Kyrias (Parashqevi D. Qiriazi) achieved in her lifespan. In 1880, the tenth and youngest child of Dhimitri and Maria was born in the vilayet of Monastir in the Ottoman Empire. As a child she learned to speak five languages...

Free e-book: The Girls’ School by P. Kyrias

This is a booklet about the first Albanian girls’ school, written ca. 1913 by Paraskevi Kyrias (Parashqevi Qiriazi), sister of the school’s founder. Click the cover image to download the e-book as a PDF. Read Dana Stucky’s preface to this e-booklet...