All-Albanian Congress

The All-Albanian Congress^[1] (Albanian: Kongresi Gjithë Shqipëtar), Albanian National Congress,^[2] or Albanian Independence Congress^[3] was a held in Vlorë (then Ottoman Empire, today Republic of Albania) on November 28, 1912.^[4] Congress participants constituted the Assembly of Vlorë which established Albanian Provisional Government and elected Ismail Qemali as its president.^[5]

^ Zhelyazkova, Antonina (2000). "Albania and Albanian Identities". International Center for Minority Studies and Intercultural Relations. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2011. calling together an all-Albanian congress. On 28 November 1912, delegates from all over the country gathered in Vlora
^ Qemali, Ismail. "Ismail Kemal bey Vlora: Memoirs". Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2011. from all parts of the country to Valona, where a national congress was to be held
^ Erickson, Edward J. (2003), "The Macedonian Campaigns, 1912", Defeat in detail: the Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913, Westport: Praeger publishers, p. 197, ISBN 0-275-97888-5, retrieved January 23, 2011, Ismail Kemal Bey convened the Albanian Independence Congress
^ Qemali, Ismail. "Ismail Kemal bey Vlora: Memoirs". Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2011. ...November 15th-28th, 1912...
^ Qemali, Ismail. "Ismail Kemal bey Vlora: Memoirs". Archived from the original on June 17, 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2011. ...On the resumption of the sitting, I was elected President of the Provisional Government, with a mandate to form a Cabinet...