The only girl in Albania

2025-08-28 13:49:23Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA FRROK ÇUPI
Frock Çupi

By Frrok Çupi

She is not alone in Albania; neither in the region nor further afield is there a 'Girl Village'. The girl of Albania washes her eyes every morning in the Vlora River and lies beautifully in Amantia.

Those who have sought its origin have received answers similar to those who ask naive questions. In order not to bring the name Vajzë too close, they have associated it with an era that few have the patience to get close to.

-It got its name 'Vajzë' from when the village fought against Genghis Khan, the ruthless Mongol emperor.

People probably made up this story themselves a thousand years ago, with the intention of "what the hell are you doing with the 'Girl'!" It reminds me of the same view of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes who said about the gnomes that 'they want to find their god's house'.

Last week, for three days, the Girl gathered all her sons and daughters from all over the world to 'celebrate'; celebrating they said, but in fact to see each other face to face, 'are we all here, okay!?'.

Are we all?!. In fact, this is the appeal of Vlora and all of Albania in survival. The girl is not that simple

Because the Girl is the center of our Nobel Prize winners.

Do you know how a village with the delicate name Vajzë has two Nobel laureates?!

Here are Ali Asllani and Shefqet Musarai (Çeçua), sons born and raised here. We have our Prize, no matter what the Stockholm Academy does. The literature of both of them has now lost authorship; everyone quotes it without knowing it or loving it for themselves.

Ali Asllani has something more than the 'Nobel' itself. In the 1920s, Ali Asllani was elected mayor of Vlora. One of Ali's first decisions as mayor was this:

'Anyone who comes to work at the Municipality should have clean shoes, preferably polished!'. It was not allowed otherwise. He ordered two shoe shiners to the entrance gate and they would clean the shoes of the newcomers. This was the first job.

He resembled the 16th century philosopher, Bajrush Spinoza. The great and enlightened man of the Dutch nation, went out every morning on the streets of Amsterdam, set up his spectacle-cleaning stool and shouted: 'Come, clean your spectacles!'. In both cases there was a metaphor, but even today a nation cannot develop without worthy citizens.

Because the Girl has devalued the Genghis.

They belong to a time that 'did not exist'; however, they keep the tale in a silver box. The symbol of the Girl is Perlat Rexhepi, the People's Hero in World War II. They have changed the location of the monument two or three times. Now they have found a rock as an extension of the mountain, which stretches like a powerful hand towards Mifoli, that is, from the West. The meaning of Perlat Rexhepi as an icon is the orientation of the local people towards the Western Alliances. 'Even if we did not have Perlat', say the people of Vlora, they would create him as the 'athlete' of the Right Side of History.

The hero was born in Vajza, but fell heroically in Shkodra. Together with two sons from Shkodra, Jordan Misja and Branko Kadinë. All three have entered history with the name 'The Three Heroes of Shkodra', not one from Vajza, the other two from Shkodra. Even if he had not fallen in Shkodra, Perlati would undoubtedly have been a hero in the North of the country. One day it had to be like this.

That the 'Genkhiz' wanted to divide Albania in half, not 1000 years ago, but three decades ago, 1997. The president of the new Republic post-Genkhiz himself launched fighter jets and infantry to conquer Vlora and the entire South. Now the Girl pretends to have forgotten, in order not to be forgotten but to be forgiven. After this tragedy, surely Albania cannot be divided again.

Notice what happens with the names! A little further south there is a mountain called 'Mali i Çikës'. Here a girl is not called çikë, but çupë; in the North it is called 'çikë'. A little further down there is a village called 'Trevllazën', but in Labëri they don't say 'vllazën', they say 'vëllezër'. What they say about Gegë and Toskë is that not only are they not separated, but they are in symbiosis.

Donikat and Vojsavat enter and exit the stage

On the stage of life and history, not just a spectacle.

I'm not just talking about the monitor of the 'Vajza Fest' Festival, adorned with the beauties of Vajza, but who was not born here. She doesn't even have an artistic profession, but she is brilliant. It seems to me that she enters and exits through the silver gates of Nobility. When she came, she came as a bride, now she is 'the Lady', as they say in the North.

The very connection with the creator of the Nation, Gjergj Kastrioti, has visible and invisible threads here. Threads that demonstrate wisdom and diplomacy.

Look what the girl Hazbi Nurçe Hitaj did, now she is no longer alive. He had given his wealth to the War. But he named his three daughters, one on one side of the World, two on the West side from where he looked 'Athlete of Christ'.

Abeja, Hazbiu's first daughter, in the sign of Abraham. Donika, named after Gjergj Kastrioti's wife, born in Kanina and immortalized in the Kingdom of Naples after her husband's death. And Vojsava is the third daughter.

In Vajzë, the name, symbol, honor, idol, nation, space..., function as in a miracle. When Hzbi Hitaj was getting old and could no longer cover all the lands that his eyes could see, what did he do?! He let go of his horse and ordered it to knock 'from sight to foot'. The horse was not seen again for some time. Until a villager from Fier sent word to Hazbi of Vajzë: 'Come, the horse has come to me'. Where the horse arrived, the owner made friends and gave Vojsava as his bride.

The girl is like our safari, South and North, where the light of her eye shines, there is our national value.


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