Haxhi Zeka
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Picture of Haxhi Zeka (sitting in the middle) with Ali Pasha of Gucia (sitting, first from the left) with some other members of Prizren League
Haxhi Zeka (December 20, 1832 - 1902) was an Albanian nationalist leader, a member of the League of Prizren, while in 1899 he was part of the establishment and leadership of the League of Peja, another organization seeking autonomy for Albania within the Ottoman Empire. Zeka was assassinated by a Serbian agent in 1902 with the backing of the Ottoman authorities.[1]
Haxhi Zeka was born in 1832 in Shoshan, a village in the Sanjak of Dukagjin, Ottoman Empire (today Albania).[2]
References
- ↑ Bep Jubani et al., Historia e popullit shqiptar: për shkollat e mesme (Libri Shkollor: Prishtinë, 2002) 182-185.
- ↑ Fishta, Gjergj (2005), The highland lute: (Lahuta e Malcís) : the Albanian national epic, London: The Centre for Albanian Studies, p. 472, ISBN 1-84511-118-4,
... born in Shoshan, now in the disctrict of Tropoja.
Further reading
- Fishta, Gjergj (2005), The highland lute: (Lahuta e Malcís) : the Albanian national epic, London: The Centre for Albanian Studies, p. 472, ISBN 1-84511-118-4