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Bajram Curri (1862March 29, 1925) was an Albanian national hero from Kosovo. 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Kosovo and Metohia (Serbian: Косово и Метохија / Kosovo i Metohija, Albanian: Kosovë / Kosova), in English most often called just Kosovo, is a province of Serbia. ...


Curri was born in Gjakovë. At the time when Albania and Kosovo were part of the Ottoman Empire, Curri represented the interests of the Albanians. He successfully fought in 1912 against the Young Turks. During the First World War he started a guerilla unit, part of the Kachak movement. Gjakovë/Gjakova (Albanian indefinite/definite form) or Djakovica/Ðakovica (Serbian) is a city located in Kosovo at 42. ... Imperial motto (Ottoman Turkish Devlet-i Ebed-müddet (the Eternal State) The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Bursa (1335 - 1365), Edirne (1365-1453), İstanbul (Constantinople) (1453-1922) Imperial anthem Ottoman imperial anthem Sovereigns Padishah of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40... 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... The Young Turks were a Turkish nationalist reform party, officially known as the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) — in Turkish the Ittihad ve Terakki Cemiyeti — whose leaders led a rebellion against Sultan Abdul Hamid II (who was officially deposed and exiled in 1909). ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ... Kachak were guerilla units consisting of emigrants from Albania and ethnic Albanians which fought in Kosovo against Serbs during the period after World War I. An article on ethnic conflict between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo. ...


When Albania was reconstituted after the war, he held various governments posts as a Minister and as a commander in the army. As an opponent of the later King Ahmed Zogu, to whom the Kosovo issue was less important, he was pursued by the King's troops and encircled in the northern Albanian mountains. He shot himself on 29 March 1925, in order to escape capture. The place where he died, Dragobi in Tropojë District, is today called Bajram Curri, as the Albanian communists revered him as a freedom fighter and nationalist. King Zog of Albania King Zog (October 8, 1895–April 9, 1961) was an Albanian politician and the first king of Albania from 1928 to 1939. ... The District of Tropojë (Albanian: Rrethi i Tropojës) is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. ...


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