Abedin Dino (born April 5, 1843, Preveza - died May 9, 1906, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire) was a Cham Albanian politician, rilindas, one of the founders of the League of Prizren (1878), and one of the main contributors in the Albanian independence.[1]
He was born in Preveza in 1843 to one of the most notable families of the town, the Dino family.[2] His father Ahmed Dino (1785–1849) was an Albanian military leader and politician. He studied in the Zosimaia School and the University of Paris. In 1876 he became one of the legislators of Kanûn-ı Esâsî, the first constitution of the Ottoman Empire.
He was appointed as the chief representative of the League of Prizren for Chameria, and established a local League branch in Ioannina.[1] He belonged to the Albanians, who were loyal to the empire and supported the Sublime Porte's military intervention. He was from Juni 10, 1880 briefly the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire, than wāli (governor) of Aden and from 1904 Vizier (minister) in Avlonyalı Mehmed Ferid Pasha (who was of Albanian origin, too) government.[3]
He was also poet and translator. He wrote song "Këngë për Shqipërin" (alb. "Song for Albania", 1879), "Të nxiturit e Shqipërisë tuke përpjeturë" (1880), "Poema e Shenjtë" (Poema of Saint, 1884), "Poetry" (1888). He translated on Albanian language poems of a 13th-century Persian poet, and Sufi mystic Rumi.[4]
His son, Rasih Dino was a co-founder of the first Albanian school in Preveza and in 1913 he was the head of the delegation of Albania that signed the Treaty of London.