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Enver Hoxha

1908 - 1985

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Enver Hoxha (Albanian: [ɛnˈvɛɾ ˈhɔdʒa] ; 16 October 1908 – 11 April 1985) was an Albanian communist politician who was the ruler of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He was the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania from 1941 until his death, a member of its Politburo, chairman of the Democratic Front of Albania, and commander-in-chief of the Albanian People's Army. He was the twenty-second prime minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and at various times was both foreign minister and defence minister of the country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Enver Hoxha has received more than 3,895,910 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 80 in 2019). Enver Hoxha is the 229th most popular politician (up from 239th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Albania and the 2nd most popular Albanian Politician.

Enver Hoxha was the leader of Albania from 1944 until his death in 1985. He is most famous for turning Albania into a communist state, and for his isolationist policies.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Enver Hoxha ranks 229 out of 19,576. Before him are Leopold II of Belgium, Joseph Goebbels, António de Oliveira Salazar, Sennacherib, Mehmed VI, and Yuri Andropov. After him are Reinhard Heydrich, Bill Clinton, Alexander III of Russia, Theodore Roosevelt, Matthias Corvinus, and Thutmose III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Enver Hoxha ranks 5. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, Salvador Allende, Bette Davis, and James Stewart. After him are Oskar Schindler, Abraham Maslow, Edward Teller, Lyndon B. Johnson, Herbert von Karajan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Otto Skorzeny. Among people deceased in 1985, Enver Hoxha ranks 2. Before him is Marc Chagall. After him are Yul Brynner, Konstantin Chernenko, Heinrich Böll, Italo Calvino, Carl Schmitt, Simone Signoret, Fernand Braudel, Orson Welles, László Bíró, and Jean Dubuffet.

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In Albania

Among people born in Albania, Enver Hoxha ranks 2 out of 150. Before him are Skanderbeg (1405). After him are Safiye Sultan (1550), Anastasius I Dicorus (430), Ali Pasha of Ioannina (1750), Ismail Kadare (1936), Sali Berisha (1944), Charles III of Naples (1345), Prince Marko (1335), Ramiz Alia (1924), Kara Ahmed Pasha (1450), and Zog I of Albania (1895).

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Among POLITICIANS In Albania

Among politicians born in Albania, Enver Hoxha ranks 2. Before him are Skanderbeg (1405). After him are Safiye Sultan (1550), Anastasius I Dicorus (430), Ali Pasha of Ioannina (1750), Sali Berisha (1944), Charles III of Naples (1345), Prince Marko (1335), Ramiz Alia (1924), Kara Ahmed Pasha (1450), Zog I of Albania (1895), and Lütfi Pasha (1488).

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