Rexhep Demi

{{Short description|Albanian politician and activist involved in the Albanian National Awakening}}

Rexhep Demi (1864-1929) was a leading member of the Albanian independence movement"History of Albanian People" By the Albanian Academy of Science {{ISBN|978-1-884964-98-5}}{{cite conference |url=http://www.cameriainstitute.org/konferenca/shqip/KONFERENCA%20E%20II%20NE%20SHQIP-beqir.meta.pdf |title=Shkrim-këndimi dhe shkolla shqipe në Çamëri |first=Bashkim |last=Kuçuku |conference=Konferenca e II ne Shqip-bequir |publisher=Instituti i Studimeve per Camerine |pages=16–21 |language=sq |trans-title=Songwriting and Albanian schools in Chameria |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725130500/http://www.cameriainstitute.org/konferenca/shqip/KONFERENCA%20E%20II%20NE%20SHQIP-beqir.meta.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-25 }} and one of the delegates of Albanian Declaration of Independence,{{cite book |title=Historia e popullit shqiptar në katër vëllime (History of Albanian People in four volumes) |last=Anamali |first=Skënder |author2=Kristaq Prifti |year=2002 |publisher=Albanian Academy of Science |isbn=978-99927-1-622-9 |language=sq }}Albanian Academy of Science. History of Albanian People. Tirana: Botimet Toena, 2007. {{ISBN|978-99943-1-269-6}}Robert Elsie. [{{cite web |url=http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1912_1.html |title=1912 | the Declaration of Albanian Independence |access-date=2014-11-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012090220/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1912_1.html |archive-date=2014-10-12 }} The Declaration of Albanian IndependenceLef Nosi. Dokumenta historike për t'i shërbye historiës tone kombëtare. Tirana: Instituti i Historisë, 2007. {{ISBN|978-99956-10-04-3}}. (in Albanian) representing the region of Çamëria. He was a minister in the Provisional Government of Albania.{{cite news |last=Shurdhi |first=Bujar |title=Çamët, pjesëmarrës në Kuvendin Kuq e Zi, të Vlorës (Participants split at the red-black assembly of Vlorë) |url=http://www.ndryshe.com/mat.php?idm=9123 |work=Gazeta Ndryshe |date=29 November 2007 |access-date=8 January 2010 |language=sq }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

He was born in Filiates ({{langx|sq|Filati}}) in 1864 to a Muslim Albanian family, and he died in 1929.{{cite book|last=Naska|first=Kaliopi|title=Dokumente për Çamërinë: 1912-1939|publisher=Dituria|year=1999|isbn=99927-31-69-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2P-4AAAAIAAJ|language=sq}}