Tringe Smajl Martini Ivezaj (or simply Tringe Smajli) was an Albanian young girl from the region of Grudë, within Malësia of then Albania, today part of southern Montenegro, who went to war against the Ottoman Empire army after her father Smajl Martini, the clan leader was kidnapped in 1911 at the Battle of Vranje, his body was never recovered.
Her legend lives on throughout the Balkans as one of the most heroic women warriors in the history of the region. She never married, never had children, and did not have any siblings. She is buried in an unmarked grave covered with ordinary field stones at the ancestral burial grounds of her family in the mountains of Gruda withiin the village of Ksheve, Montenegro.
In 1911 the New York Times described Tringe Smajli as the "Albanian Joan of Arc".[1]
Several streets in Kosovo and Albania are named after her and is regarded a People's Hero of Albania.