Participants of the congress accepted Fishta's proposal for the Latin Bashkimi alphabet to be the standard Albanian alphabet, rejecting proposals that the Arabic alphabet be used.
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Notably he was the chairman of the commission of the Congress of Monastir, which sanctioned the Albanian alphabet.
Hylli i Dritës was first published in 1913 in Shkodër, northern Albania by Gjergj Fishta, an important author of Albanian literature.