Shaqe Çoba

Shaqe Çoba, née Shiroka, (1875–1954) was an Albanian feminist and suffragist.

Shaqe Çoba was born in Shkodër, which was then part of the Sanjak of Scutari of the Ottoman Empire, in 1875.

On the way to attend school in Venice, Italy, in 1904, she met her future husband Ndoc Çoba, with whom she had one son.

[1] On 3 August 1920, Shaqe Çoba founded and led The Albanian Woman for upper-class women of Shkodër to help support the Albanian National Army defending against Yugoslav incursions into northern Albania.

[2] On the ninetieth anniversary of Albanian independence in November 2002, the President of the Republic of Albania, Alfred Moisiu, posthumously awarded Çoba the Naim Frashëri Order (Albanian: Urdhri "Naim Frashëri") for her participation in the 1920s independence movement as a fighter "against the division of Albania and for the emancipation of the Albanian woman.