--- description: Charles Calmer Hart, U. S. Minister at Tirana, capital of Albania (a small country on the Adriatic Sea, sandwiched between Jugoslavia and Greece), was informed by the Government of Ahmed Bey... title: ALBANIA: Port Wilson image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # ALBANIA: Port Wilson by [TIME](/author/time/) Sep 19, 1927 4:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Sep 19, 1927 4:00 AM CUT Charles Calmer Hart, U. S. Minister at Tirana, capital of Albania (a small country on the Adriatic Sea, sandwiched between Jugoslavia and Greece), was informed by the Government of Ahmed Bey Zogu, President of Albania, that Port San Giovanni di Medua, on the northwestern coast, will be re-named Port Wilson, as promised by Bishop Fan Noli, onetime (1924) Prime Minister, in recognition of Woodrow Wilson’s part in consolidating the independence of Albania. U. S. representatives are to be accorded seats of honor at the forthcoming baptism. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6656519/albania-port-wilson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6656519/albania-port-wilson/"},"headline":"ALBANIA: Port Wilson","datePublished":"1927-09-19T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-26T19:37:22.226Z","description":"Charles Calmer Hart, U. S. Minister at Tirana, capital of Albania (a small country on the Adriatic Sea, sandwiched between Jugoslavia and Greece), was informed by the Government of Ahmed Bey...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6656519/albania-port-wilson/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6656519/albania-port-wilson/","name":"ALBANIA: Port Wilson"}}]}] ```