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The Central Committe for Defending Albanian Rights was formed in the city of Constantinople in 1877 by an influential group of political scientist Albanian intellectuals. The goal of the committee was to disseminate the idea of an autonomous Albanian region within the steadily diminishing Ottoman Empire. The Committee's plan and ideals were, printed in the Tercuman i Sark paper, which anticipated the founding of a single Albanian vilayet that would encompass the Kosovo, Bitolj, Janjevo, Salonika and Scutari vilayets, plus a few smaller territories. As support for both the committee and the idea of a united Albania grew, supporters decided to meet in the city of Prizren. This became the 1st meeting of what came to be known as the Prizren League. Map of Constantinople. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Ottoman Empire at the height of its power Imperial motto of sultan Abdülaziz El-Muzaffer Daima (Ottoman Turkish for the Ever Victorious) Official language Ottoman Turkish Capital Constantinople (Ä°stanbul) Sovereigns Sultans of the Osmanli Dynasty Population ca 40 million Area 6. ... View of Prizren Prizren (Serbian Cyrillic Призрен; Albanian Prizreni) is an historic city located Kosovo (officially Kosovo ) at 42. ... The League of Prizren (Albanian: Lidhja e Prizrenit) was created on June 10, 1878 in a mosque in Prizren, Kosovo by 300 Albanian nationalist leaders, mostly from Kosovo, Western Macedonia, and Muslim leaders from Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Sandzak, in order to achieve an autonomous Albanian state, representing the former...
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