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  "ar": "لويج غوراكوكي",
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  "ar": "كاتب ورجل دولة ألباني من شكودر، من موقعي إعلان الاستقلال سنة 1912 ووزير التعليم في أول حكومة ألبانية، أدار المدرسة النظامية في إلباسان، وكان وزير المالية في حكومة فان نولي سنة 1924، واغتيل في منفاه بباري سنة 1925.",
  "en": "Albanian writer and statesman from Shkodër: signatory of the 1912 declaration of independence and minister of education in the first Albanian government, director of the Elbasan Normal School, and minister of finance in Fan Noli's 1924 government; assassinated in exile at Bari in 1925.",
  "ur": "شکودر سے تعلق رکھنے والے البانوی ادیب اور رہنما؛ 1912 کے اعلانِ آزادی کے دستخط کنندہ اور پہلی البانوی حکومت میں وزیرِ تعلیم، الباسان نارمل سکول کے ڈائریکٹر، اور 1924 میں فان نولی کی حکومت میں وزیرِ خزانہ؛ 1925 میں باری میں جلاوطنی کے دوران قتل ہوئے۔"
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   "note": "Born at Shkodër on 19 February 1879, son of the merchant Pjetër Gurakuqi and Lezja (Tereza) Prëka, and baptized the following day, as the Albanian biography records. The Hijri year 1296 is derived by conversion and is marked derived.",
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   "edtf": "1925-03-02",
   "hijri": "1343",
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   "note": "Assassinated at Bari, Italy, on 2 March 1925 by Balto Stambolla while living in exile after the fall of the Noli government. The Hijri year 1343 is derived by conversion and is marked derived. Bari has no place entity on main, so the place is carried here.",
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   {
    "value": "Jakin Shkodra",
    "kind": "pen"
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   {
    "value": "Lekë Gruda",
    "kind": "pen"
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    "value": "Louis Gurakuchi",
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   "note": "Born at Shkodër on 19 February 1879, son of the merchant Pjetër Gurakuqi and Lezja (Tereza) Prëka, and baptized the following day, as the Albanian biography records. The Hijri year 1296 is derived by conversion and is marked derived.",
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   "hijri": "1343",
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   "note": "Assassinated at Bari, Italy, on 2 March 1925 by Balto Stambolla while living in exile after the fall of the Noli government. The Hijri year 1343 is derived by conversion and is marked derived. Bari has no place entity on main, so the place is carried here.",
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   "politician"
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    "value": "christian",
    "basis": "documented",
    "note": "The Albanian biography records his baptism at Shkodër on 20 February 1879, the day after his birth, and the English biography states that he was born to a Catholic family; Elsie's dictionary independently documents the Catholic formation of the man himself — educated by the Jesuits at the Saverian College, encouraged by his Jesuit teachers, and publishing his early verse in the Jesuit periodical of religious culture, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart. No source suggests any other affiliation. The settlement rests on these personal attestations, not on the family statement alone.",
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   "source": "English and Albanian Wikipedia biographies of Luigj Gurakuqi (Q1390790), the Wikidata item, and Robert Elsie's Historical Dictionary of Albania (2010), Gurakuqi entry at pp. 178–179, read in the Internet Archive scan; every Wikipedia and Wikidata revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted before use, and the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer is the Shkodër writer and statesman (1879–1925); the queue's parenthetical '(Muslim Allies)' is a list-section tag, not part of his name, and was expressly not used as evidence of anything. Existence checks by name fragments (gurakuqi, luigj) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record. The born_in edge targets place/shkodra, verified to exist on origin/main; his ministerial offices and literary-society roles are never relations.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "لويج غوراكوكي ⁦(19 فبراير 1879 – 2 مارس 1925)⁩، الذي كتب باسمَي جاكين شكودرا وليكة غرودا، كاتب ورجل دولة ألباني من شكودر.{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en} عُمّد في اليوم التالي لميلاده في عائلة كاثوليكية، وتعلّم على أيدي اليسوعيين في كلية سافيريان، ونشر في شبابه شعراً في الدورية اليسوعية للثقافة الدينية «رسول القلب الأقدس».{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-sq}{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania} وفي سنة 1909 أصبح مديراً لأول مدرسة لتأهيل المعلمين في ألبانيا في إلباسان؛ وفي نوفمبر 1912 رافق إسماعيل كمال إلى فلورا ووقّع إعلان الاستقلال وأصبح وزير التعليم في أول حكومة ألبانية.{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en}{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania}\n\nوفي سنة 1924 أيّد ثورة يونيو وأصبح وزير المالية في حكومة فان نولي؛ وبعد سقوطها فرّ إلى إيطاليا حيث اغتيل بالرصاص في مقهى بباري في 2 مارس 1925.{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en} وتحمل جامعة شكودر المؤسسة سنة 1991 اسمه اليوم.{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Luigj Gurakuqi (19 February 1879 – 2 March 1925), who wrote under the pen names Jakin Shkodra and Lekë Gruda, was an Albanian writer and statesman from Shkodër.{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en} Baptized the day after his birth into a Catholic family, he was educated by the Jesuits at the Saverian College and as a young man published verse in the Jesuit periodical of religious culture, The Messenger of the Sacred Heart.{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-sq}{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania} In 1909 he became director of Albania's first teacher-training school at Elbasan; in November 1912 he travelled with Ismail Qemal to Vlorë, signed the declaration of independence and became minister of education in the first Albanian government.{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en}{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania}\n\nIn 1924 he backed the June Revolution and served as minister of finance in Fan Noli's government; after its fall he fled to Italy, where he was shot dead in a Bari café on 2 March 1925.{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en} The university founded at Shkodër in 1991 now bears his name.{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "لوئج گوراکوکی (19 فروری 1879 – 2 مارچ 1925)، جو جاکن شکودرا اور لیکے گرودا کے قلمی ناموں سے لکھتے تھے، شکودر سے تعلق رکھنے والے البانوی ادیب اور رہنما تھے۔{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en} ایک کیتھولک خاندان میں پیدائش کے اگلے دن ان کا بپتسمہ ہوا، انھوں نے یسوعیوں کے سیویرین کالج میں تعلیم پائی اور جوانی میں یسوعی دینی ثقافتی جریدے «مقدس قلب کے پیامبر» میں شاعری شائع کی۔{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-sq}{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania} 1909 میں وہ الباسان میں البانیا کے پہلے اساتذہ تربیتی اسکول کے ڈائریکٹر بنے؛ نومبر 1912 میں وہ اسماعیل کمال کے ساتھ ولورا گئے، اعلانِ آزادی پر دستخط کیے اور پہلی البانوی حکومت میں وزیرِ تعلیم بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en}{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania}\n\n1924 میں انھوں نے جون انقلاب کی حمایت کی اور فان نولی کی حکومت میں وزیرِ خزانہ رہے؛ اس کے خاتمے کے بعد وہ اٹلی بھاگ گئے، جہاں 2 مارچ 1925 کو باری کے ایک کیفے میں انھیں گولی مار کر ہلاک کر دیا گیا۔{cite:wikipedia-luigj-gurakuqi-en} 1991 میں قائم ہونے والی شکودر یونیورسٹی اب ان کے نام سے موسوم ہے۔{cite:elsie-historical-dictionary-albania}"
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