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    Gjon Buzuku (c. 1499 – c. 1577) was an Albanian Catholic priest and a prominent Old Albanian author, who wrote the first known printed book in Albanian...
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    Arvanites in Greece The name Gjon is also mentioned in the afterword of Gjon Buzuku's 1555 book, Meshari, where the author introduces himself to the reader...
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    development of the local language and literary tradition, when cleric Gjon Buzuku translated the Catholic liturgy into Albanian, trying to do for Albanian...
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    "Missal") is the oldest published book in Albanian. The book was written by Gjon Buzuku, a Catholic cleric in 1555. The book contains 188 pages and is written...
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    Albanian printed book, Meshari, or "missal", was written in 1555 by Gjon Buzuku, a Roman Catholic cleric. In 1635, Frang Bardhi wrote the first Latin–Albanian...
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  • invasion. Also, the five Albanian writers of the 16th and 17th centuries (Gjon Buzuku, Lekë Matrënga, Pjetër Budi, Frang Bardhi and Pjetër Bogdani) who form...
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    the Archbishop of Durrës Paulus Angelus. In 1555, a Catholic clergyman Gjon Buzuku from the Shestan region published the earliest known book written in...
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    cleric Gjon Buzuku translated the Catholic liturgy into Albanian, trying to do for Albanian what Luther did for German. The Meshari (The Missal) by Gjon Buzuku...
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  • Archbishop of the Diocese of Skopje, known for discovering Meshari of Gjon Buzuku. Monsignor Gjon Nikollë Kazazi was born on 1 January 1702 in Gjakova, Ottoman...
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  • Gjon Buzuku translated the Catholic liturgy into Albanian, trying to do for Albanian what Luther did for German. Meshari (The Missal) by Gjon Buzuku,...
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