Ramiz Alia

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ramiz Tafë Alia (help-info) (18 October 1925 - 7 October 2011) was the second and last communist leader of Albania from 1985-91, and the President of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania from 1991 to 1992, and also the first President of the post communist Albania elected in 1991-92. He had been designated as successor by Enver Hoxha and took power after Hoxha died. Alia died on 7 October 2011 in Tirana due to lung disease, aged 85.