Background
Syrja Bej Vlora was born in Vlorë, back then Ottoman Empire, in 1860.
Syrja Bej Vlora was born in Vlorë, back then Ottoman Empire, in 1860.
Syrja Vlora was married to the sister of Essad Toptani. Before the new Albanian state, he had served as General Director of the Customs of the Ottoman Empire, and a representative in the Ottoman Parliament from 1908. After the Declaration of Independence of Albania in 1912 in his home town, where he was a delegate of Përmet region, he held minor political positions, known mainly as the Albanian Ambassador in Vienna in 1914.
He was the father of the Albanian politician and scholar Ekrem Bey Vlora.
Together they had propagandized the Albanian independence in Austria during the pre-Independence European tour of Ismail Qemali. He died in 1940.
He was a member of the well known Vlora family, historically successful through the ranks of Ottoman administration and military.