Mother Albania (statue)

Mother Albania (Albanian Nena Shqipëri [ nəna ʃcipəɾi ] ) is a national personification of Albania in the form of a female figure, the country of Albania (Albanian Shqipëria, fem ) symbolizes. The allegory was especially during the communist rule use, as in a poem by Dritëro Agolli. However, the figure is of older origin: Already Pashko Vasa and other former nationalists used for nation building the concept of Mother Albania, regardless of their religion are all Albanians a home.

It is known especially the great monument to the military cemetery to honor the fallen of World War II in the Albanian capital Tirana. It is located southeast of the city at the entrance of the military cemetery Varrezat e Dëshmorëve e Kombit. The twelve-meter high monument is made up of a statue and the pedestal and is reminiscent of Soviet Motherland statues. The statue is made ​​of concrete and shows Mother Albania, wearing a laurel wreath and a star on her right hand. Mother Albania is symbolic about the eternal sleep of those guards, who gave their lives for them. The monument was created in 1971 according to plans by Kristaq Rama, Muntaz Dhrami and Shaban Haderi. On the front of the pedestal is the inscription Ladvi and exit e Përjetshme Dëshmorëve të Atdheut is ( Eternal glory to the martyrs of the homeland ). In the cemetery there are a total of 28,000 graves of partisans of the Second World War. Also the grave of the decades- long dictator of Albania, Enver Hoxha, was located here until it was exhumed in 1992 and converted to a public cemetery with schlichterem grave stone.