 Mehdi Frashëri was born in 1872 in the village of Frashër in the Përmet kaza, to Ragip bey kaymakam of Metsovo.He studied in Konica and Monastir and graduated from the Mekteb-i Mülkiye in Istanbul in 1897.While in Constantinople, in 1901, he was charged with establishing a small press in a local house cellar for printing Albanian nationalistic materials together with a small group of Albanians.