[1] Greek also functioned as a lingua franca in Epirus, a border region where Albanian- and Greek-speaking people mixed.
[4] In 1907 a young Albanian emigrant to the United States named Kristaq Dishnica died of influenza in Hudson, Massachusetts.
[6] Fan Noli—an Albanian who had emigrated one year earlier to Boston, and at that time a church cantor—recognized this as an opportunity to serve the spiritual needs of his own community and to champion the cause of religious and political freedom in Albania.
[5] A week later Noli was appointed administrator of the Albanian Orthodox Mission in America, and later elevated to the rank of Mitred Archmandrite.
[5] As a result of the Hudson Incident, Fan Noli helped organize the Saint George Albanian Orthodox Church at the Knights of Honor Hall on Tremont Street in Boston.