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Kosta aka Kostaq Kott Kott (born 1889 in Korczy - d. 1949 in Burrel ) - Prime Minister of Albania in the period 1928 - 1930 and 1936 - 1939 .
He came from a family of Orthodox in the south of Albania. He studied medicine in Athens , and then in Italian universities. In 1913, he joined an official in Korczy, and soon after in the Albanian Ministry of Education. In 1924, she first deputy mandate. He headed several departments in the Albanian government before he took office in 1928, Prime Minister. During the Second World War was associated with the movement Legaliteti . In 1944 he fled to Greece , but was captured by partisans of communist and extradited to Albania.
After the political process in March 1945, sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison as a result of torture .
- [S24] article, New York Times, New York, NY, 23 Jul 1965, p. 29.
Dr. Nuci Kotta, 44, An Albanian Exile
PORT JEFFERSON, L.I., July 22—Dr. Nuci Kotta, an Albanian exile leader who taught French at the State University in Stony Brook, died on Tuesday in St. Charles Hospital here after suffering a heart attack earlier in the day at his home at 119 South Street. His age was 44.
Dr. Kotta was the son of Kosta Kotta, Premier of Albania when Italy took over the country in 1939. He received a Doctor of Laws degree in 1946 from the University of Paris, and his book "Albania and the Question of the Albanian-Greek Frontiers," was published in French that year in Paris.
He came to this country in 1949. After being a lecturer in French at Hunter College and then a lecturer and then an instructer in French at Columbia University, Dr. Kota was, from 1963 until his death, assistant professor of French at the State University.
He was executive member of the National Committee for a Free Albania from 1949 to 1953 and deputy secretary general of the Assembly of Captive European Nations from 1955 to 1959.
Since 1961 he had been chairman of the Albanian Movement of Legality.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Susan Cort Kotta; a son George and a sister, Mrs. Androkill Phillips.
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