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    Posted (edited)

    Have made an overview of all my award doc's plus what I've seen here on GMIC:

    AWARD NAME DATE DECREE

    Medal for bravery Zyra Radhima 5.11.1953 1626

    Order for bravery Mehmet Refat Kodra 5.12.1955 2178

    Skanderbeg 3rd class Idris Razip Resuli 13.7.1959 2939

    Hero of People Shokhut Haxhi Lezhi 29.4.1963 3677

    MEDALJEN E PUNES SKENDER HAMDI SINES 9.10.1978 5776

    URDHRIN PER PUNE TE SHQUAR NE EKONOMINE BUJQESORE 3rd class XHEMAL RAKIP HOXHOLLIT 27.1.1979 5828

    Medaljen per sherbime te shquara shteterose dhe shoqerore Organization 26.4.1980 6185

    URHRIN NAIM FRASHERI 3rd class SKENDER HAMDI SINES 30.7.1984 6904

    Medal for distinguished labor in agriculture AGIM KHEVDET DANIT 24.8.1984 6907

    Medaljne per sherbim shumerjecar ne forcat e armatsoruaa XHEMAL JASHAR JAHJAS 24.12.1984 6939

    MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED STATE AND CIVIL SERVICES Zenun Rahman Precit 23.3.1987 7115

    Medal for distinguished labor in mining / geology Kadri Novruz Hitajt 11.5.1987 7125

    order of labor 3rd class FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 20.11.1987 7175

    Medaljen per sherbime te shquara shteterose dhe shoqerore FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 22.12.1987 7183

    Medal for Meritorious Service to the People Lumturi Shefki Vrapit 4.3.1989 7286

    Hero of Socialist Labor XHEMAL RAKIP HOXHOLLIT 13.11.1989 7335

    order of labor 3rd class AGIM KHEVDET DANIT 13.1.1990 7350

    Order 40 years PPSH FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 4.2.1989 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Aleksandra Vasil Karajanit 16.10.1981 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Selman Kadri Cobanit 5.11.1990 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Omer Hasim Meros 16.10.1981 -

    Will get all the award names in English later. What's interesting... my hypothesis is that 1 decree equals 1 awarding (at least, I've yet to come across documents with the same decree number). This would imply only very, very few awardings! Roughly 200 per year. This would also explain why we see so few award documents. Perhaps only 7.500 awarded? Of course, maybe some medals, etc. were given away without a decree (or document for that matter).

    What's "good" to see is that the dates / decree dates are perfectly ascending. So probably awardings were all centralized in Tirana.

    Would appreciate if anybody with new docs could PM me:

    - award name

    - awardee name

    - date

    - decree

    ...both to further expand on the list and, potentially, to reunite groups.

    Could somebody please make this a sticky thread?

    Edited by Bob
    • 3 months later...
    Posted

    I wish I had some documents to add to this list, but they have been hard to come by for me. I may have a few scans of some, though, that were not in my book. I'll see what I can dig up.

    Posted

    Have made an overview of all my award doc's plus what I've seen here on GMIC:

    AWARD NAME DATE DECREE

    Medal for bravery Zyra Radhima 5.11.1953 1626

    Order for bravery Mehmet Refat Kodra 5.12.1955 2178

    Skanderbeg 3rd class Idris Razip Resuli 13.7.1959 2939

    Hero of People Shokhut Haxhi Lezhi 29.4.1963 3677

    MEDALJEN E PUNES SKENDER HAMDI SINES 9.10.1978 5776

    URDHRIN PER PUNE TE SHQUAR NE EKONOMINE BUJQESORE 3rd class XHEMAL RAKIP HOXHOLLIT 27.1.1979 5828

    Medaljen per sherbime te shquara shteterose dhe shoqerore Organization 26.4.1980 6185

    URHRIN NAIM FRASHERI 3rd class SKENDER HAMDI SINES 30.7.1984 6904

    Medal for distinguished labor in agriculture AGIM KHEVDET DANIT 24.8.1984 6907

    Medaljne per sherbim shumerjecar ne forcat e armatsoruaa XHEMAL JASHAR JAHJAS 24.12.1984 6939

    MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED STATE AND CIVIL SERVICES Zenun Rahman Precit 23.3.1987 7115

    Medal for distinguished labor in mining / geology Kadri Novruz Hitajt 11.5.1987 7125

    order of labor 3rd class FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 20.11.1987 7175

    Medaljen per sherbime te shquara shteterose dhe shoqerore FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 22.12.1987 7183

    Medal for Meritorious Service to the People Lumturi Shefki Vrapit 4.3.1989 7286

    Hero of Socialist Labor XHEMAL RAKIP HOXHOLLIT 13.11.1989 7335

    order of labor 3rd class AGIM KHEVDET DANIT 13.1.1990 7350

    Order 40 years PPSH FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 4.2.1989 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Aleksandra Vasil Karajanit 16.10.1981 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Selman Kadri Cobanit 5.11.1990 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Omer Hasim Meros 16.10.1981 -

    Will get all the award names in English later. What's interesting... my hypothesis is that 1 decree equals 1 awarding (at least, I've yet to come across documents with the same decree number). This would imply only very, very few awardings! Roughly 200 per year. This would also explain why we see so few award documents. Perhaps only 7.500 awarded? Of course, maybe some medals, etc. were given away without a decree (or document for that matter).

    What's "good" to see is that the dates / decree dates are perfectly ascending. So probably awardings were all centralized in Tirana.

    Would appreciate if anybody with new docs could PM me:

    - award name

    - awardee name

    - date

    - decree

    ...both to further expand on the list and, potentially, to reunite groups.

    Could somebody please make this a sticky thread?

    Dear Bob,

    The standard procedure was to emeted a decree for any awarded person. There are some cases, specialy during 1945-1960) of emeted a group decree. After that period, for any decoration emeted, exist a decree. In Albania does not exist the mode to give decorations without decree.

    Regards,

    Artan

    Posted

    Thanks Artan - excellent piece of info "from the source" which confirms that truly awarded orders/medals are very very few and therefore the documents are quite rare (and a lot of the awards on the market are actually left over stock). For Albania orders/medals enthusiasts, this'll be the next area of focus I suspect - getting the award documents which (hopefully) allow for research in the (military) archives at some point.

    Posted

    Thanks Artan - excellent piece of info "from the source" which confirms that truly awarded orders/medals are very very few and therefore the documents are quite rare (and a lot of the awards on the market are actually left over stock). For Albania orders/medals enthusiasts, this'll be the next area of focus I suspect - getting the award documents which (hopefully) allow for research in the (military) archives at some point.

    hello!

    Artan pyetja ime eshte nese numri i dekretit paraardhes ose pasardhes perfaqesonte nje dekorate tjeter domosdoshmerisht apo nje dekret cfaredo te kuvendit?

    my question for my friend Artan is whether the previous and succesive decree number belonged to another award neccesary. or to any common decree issued not related to awarding?

    Posted

    hello!

    Artan pyetja ime eshte nese numri i dekretit paraardhes ose pasardhes perfaqesonte nje dekorate tjeter domosdoshmerisht apo nje dekret cfaredo te kuvendit?

    my question for my friend Artan is whether the previous and succesive decree number belonged to another award neccesary. or to any common decree issued not related to awarding?

    Dear captain,

    Dekretet e dekorimeve ishin ne te njeten rradhe me dekretet e tjera dhe jo si renditje apo rregjister me vehte. Pra, psh dekreti 234 mund te ishte dekorim, dekreti 235 mund te ishte emerim, dekreti 236 shpallje ligji, dekreti 237 prape dekorim, e keshytu me rradhe.

    Regards,

    Artan

    • 2 weeks later...
    Posted

    Hello,

    Excellent contribution from Artan!

    I've recently added to my Albanian collection a Skanderbeg III Class, with number "3444". Is there any chance to know something more about its recipent and date of award?

    Best wishes,

    Enzo (Elmar Lang)

    Posted

    Hello Elmar,

    Could you show a scan of your award in the relevant thread please? It's the highest numbered one I've heard of so am curious.

    I will leave it to the captain to give us hope for research :cheers:

    Posted

    Stealing from an email exchange with the captain:

    Until 1949

    - All awards were given by certificate number ( no decree )

    - Observed numbers range from 1686 to 5473

    - One certificate number = one award

    Starting 1950

    - Awards were given by a decree number (no more certificates) with one decree corresponding to many awards and thus also awarded persons

    - It appears the decrees started to be numbered fresh again rather than continue from the last known certificate number

    - Open question: decree numbers ONLY relate to awards or are also interspersed with decrees e.g. to build a bridge somewhere, defend against the pending invasion of Albania by foreign powers, etc.?

    - A known example is medal for bravery and medal of liberation given to the same person with the same decree number 1948 date 25.10.1954

    - Based on my list, roughly 7000 of these decree numbers (thus a multitide of actual awardings but unclear how many)

    Starting ?

    - One decree corresponding with one award

    Posted

    - Open question: decree numbers ONLY relate to awards or are also interspersed with decrees e.g. to build a bridge somewhere, defend against the pending invasion of Albania by foreign powers, etc.?

    the answer to this question was answered by Mr. Lame . According to my documents the decrees started after the 1950 and one award one decree started after 1959?????

    the decrees issued by Presidium of Peoples Assembly were generic so each decree corresponded possibly to eg a bridge or an award and so on.

    even though is still difficult to get a definite number of the awarded persons we now have an idea.

    Posted

    Yep, let's say around 6000-7000 during the first period (1 certificate = 1 award) and for arguments sake another 7.000 during the second period (decrees will have multiple awards (impossible to say how often this occured, not many award doc's and even more rare to find them with same decree nr) but there'll also be decress on topics nothing to do with awards... which would imply potentially 15.000 awardings.

    If we assume the third period is post-socialist then we have a decent guesstimate for the area of our collecting interest. Best thing would be: more documents, and research! :jumping:

    • 3 weeks later...
    Posted

    Interestingly enough, I dived into my collection of awards documents and found an odd case:

    - award document with the phrase "certificate" on it

    - yet ALSO with the reference to a decree number (in the same spot as where other "certificate" documents have a number (e.g. 1234) this document has "1234 i dekretit")

    Hmmm :speechless:

    • 3 weeks later...
    Posted

    Is it just me, or does that name sound Russian? Would be very interesting to get the translation of the reasons for awarding! :jumping:

    Posted

    Is it just me, or does that name sound Russian? Would be very interesting to get the translation of the reasons for awarding! :jumping:

    Dear Bob,

    Certainly that the colonel is Soviet one. During the years 1947-1960, a number of Soviet officials, was in Albania as instructors and specialists near the units of the Albanian army.

    The text of certificate said: ?FOR UNTIRING WORK AND AKTIVITY TO ENFORCE THE POLITICAL-MILITARY PREPARATION AND THE FIGHTING ALERT OF THE UNITS OF THE ALBANIAN PEOPLE?S ARMY?.

    • 7 months later...
    Posted

    Below an update. The first two awards actually are with certificates while the rest are with decrees. This provides tentatively a range:

    - certificates from 1 (?) - roughly 2500

    - decrees from 1 (?) - 7350?

    For the decreed ones, it's clear the nr of decree increases in line with increase in date of awarding so these must have all been centrally adminstered in Tirana.

    The lengthy awarding period for the Order of 40 years PPSH is intriguing.

    AWARD NAME DATE DECREE

    Medaljen e Trimerise Esat Ismail Elmazi 23.xx.1949 5473

    Medaljen e Trimerise Ali Rexha 7.xx.1947 2525

    Medal for bravery Zyra Radhima 5.11.1953 1626

    Urdherin Ylli I Kuq Esat Ismail Elmazi 21/06/1954 1885

    Medaljen e Climirit Abaz Ramiz Habibaj 25.10.1954 1948

    Medaljen e Trimerise Abaz Ramiz Habibaj 25.10.1954 1948

    Order for bravery Mehmet Refat Kodra 5.12.1955 2178

    Skanderbeg 3rd class Idris Razip Resuli 13.7.1959 2939

    Medal of Labor ? 11.12.1961 3597

    Hero of People Shokhut Haxhi Lezhi 29.4.1963 3677

    Medal For Military Service Xhemal Zenel Dervishi 1/07/1968 4410

    Medal for state and civic services ? 1.11.1969 4564

    Medaljen Sherbimit Ushtarak Agron Shefit Cunit 20.11.1974 5214

    Medal For Exemplary Work in Mining and Geology Hasan Xhevdet Hasani 12/08/1974 5249

    MEDALJEN E PUNES SKENDER HAMDI SINES 9.10.1978 5776

    URDHRIN PER PUNE TE SHQUAR NE EKONOMINE BUJQESORE 3rd class XHEMAL RAKIP HOXHOLLIT 27.1.1979 5828

    order per pune te shquar ne menieri dhe gjeologji t klasset II Eleni Gjino Kutundit 27.10.1979 5996

    Medaljen per sherbime te shquara shteterose dhe shoqerore Organization 26.4.1980 6185

    Medaljen per sherbime te shquara shteterose dhe shoqerore Eleni Gjino Kutundit 7.5.1983 6770

    URHRIN NAIM FRASHERI 3rd class SKENDER HAMDI SINES 30.7.1984 6904

    Medal for distinguished labor in agriculture AGIM KHEVDET DANIT 24.8.1984 6907

    Medal For Distinguished State and Civic Services Ollga Aleks Selenices 7/09/1984 6911

    Medal for Good Service to the People Serjan Beqir Balliut 1.11.1984 6920

    Medaljne per sherbim shumerjecar ne forcat e armatsoruaa XHEMAL JASHAR JAHJAS 24.12.1984 6939

    Medal of Labour Liljana Koco Cakulit 3/12/1985 7008

    MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED STATE AND CIVIL SERVICES Zenun Rahman Precit 23.3.1987 7115

    Medal for distinguished labor in mining / geology Kadri Novruz Hitajt 11.5.1987 7125

    Order of Labor Class III Shaqir Sherif Zajmit 25/07/1987 7140

    order of labor 3rd class FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 20.11.1987 7175

    Medaljen per sherbime te shquara shteterose dhe shoqerore FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 22.12.1987 7183

    Medal for Meritorious Service to the People Lumturi Shefki Vrapit 4.3.1989 7286

    Hero of Socialist Labor XHEMAL RAKIP HOXHOLLIT 13.11.1989 7335

    order of labor 3rd class AGIM KHEVDET DANIT 13.1.1990 7350

    Medal Naim Frasheri Kico Rrapi Gjates 13/01/1990 7350

    Order 40 years PPSH Aleksandra Vasil Karajanit 16.10.1981 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Neim Adem Xhanit 16/10/1981 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Omer Hasim Meros 16.10.1981 -

    Order 40 years PPSH FAIK BAJRO GRAMSHIT 4.2.1989 -

    Order 40 years PPSH Selman Kadri Cobanit 5.11.1990 -

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