Editing Enver Hoxha (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Hodza house.jpg|thumb|The site of the house where Hoxha grew up in [[Gjirokastër]]; the original home was lost to a fire in the 1960s]]
Hoxha was born in [[Gjirokastër]] in southern Albania (then a part of the [[Ottoman Empire]]) in October 1908,{{Sfn|Gürpınar|2012}} the son of Halil Hoxha, a [[Islam in Albania|Muslim]] cloth merchant who travelled widely across Europe and the United States, and Gjylihan Hoxha (''née'' Çuçi). Enver was named after [[Enver Pasha]], a leading figure of the [[Young Turk Revolution]].{{Sfn|Gürpınar|2012}} The Hoxha family was attached to the [[Bektashism|Bektashi Order]].{{Sfn|Pipa|1990|p=262}}

After elementary school, Enver followed his studies in the city senior high school "Liria". He started his studies at the Gjirokastër Lyceum in 1923. After the lyceum was closed, due to intervention of [[Ekrem Libohova]],{{Sfn|Fevziu|2017|p=22}} Enver Hoxha was awarded a state scholarship for the continuation of his studies in [[Korçë]], at the French language [[Albanian National Lyceum]] until 1930.{{Sfn|Dervishi|2012|p=136}}

[[File:Enver Hoxha aged 18 1927.jpg|thumb|right|Hoxha at the age of 18]]
In 1930, Hoxha went to study at the [[University of Montpellier]] in [[Montpellier|Montpellier, France]] on a state scholarship for the faculty of [[natural science]], but he lost the scholarship for neglecting his studies. He later went to [[Paris]], where he presented himself to anti-Zogist immigrants as the brother-in-law of [[Bahri Omari]].{{Sfn|Dervishi|2016|p=188}} From 1935 to 1936, he was employed as a secretary at the Albanian consulate in [[Brussels]]. After returning to Albania, he worked as a contract teacher in the Gymnasium of [[Tirana]] (a school). Hoxha taught French and morals in the Korça Liceum from 1937 to 1939 and was also the caretaker of the school library.{{Sfn|Dervishi|2016|p=188}}

On 7 April 1939, the [[Albanian Kingdom (1928-1939)|Albanian Kingdom]] was [[Italian invasion of Albania|invaded]] by [[fascist Italy]].{{Sfn|Hoxha|1974|p=32, note 1}} The Italians established a puppet government, called the [[Albanian Kingdom (1939–43)|Kingdom of Albania]], under [[Shefqet Vërlaci]].{{Sfn|Hoxha|1974|p=34, 35, note 2}} At the end of 1939, Hoxha was transferred to the Gjirokastra Gymnasium, but he soon returned to Tirana. He was helped by his best friend, Esat Dishnica, who introduced Hoxha to Dishnica's cousin [[Ibrahim Biçakçiu]]. Hoxha began to sleep in Biçakçiu's tobacco factory "Flora", and after a while, Dishnica opened a shop with the same name, where Hoxha began working.{{Sfn|Dervishi|2016|p=189}} He was a sympathiser of Korça's Communist Group.<ref>[[Liri Belishova]], interviewed by Elisabeta Ilnica, "E vërteta për Enverin" (The truth about Enver), ''Panorama'' newspaper, 13 January 2015.</ref>