Contribution of Austrian-Hungarian Empire in the development of Education in Shkodra till notification of the Independence of Albania

Abstract

The relations of Shkodra region in the education’s field with Austrian-Hungarian Empire have had an early traditon. The attempt to identify this employment link brings some new fact in the context of this cooperation, over a period of time from 1850 to 1912, Albanian Declaration of Independence. Based on the time's statics, various writings,archival materials and documents to Vienna's archive, we are trying to identify the values of this contribution in education, in functioning and spreading of schools and allowing the Albanian language in schools that held the function on the basis of this contribution. It is important to be noted that these schools played an important role not only in the education of the new generation, but soon Shkodra turns into an important educational centre.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n3p368