Demë Ali Pozhari

Demë Ali Pozhari (born April 15, 1905 in Pozhar , Ottoman Empire , today Kosovo , † April 26, 1975 in Istanbul , Turkey ) was a Yugoslav politician and resistance fighter .

Life

Demë Ali Pozhari was born in Pozhar in the municipality of Dečani and grew up in a family of Albanian descent. Between 1941 and 1944 he was a co-founder and member of an Albanian resistance movement which fought against the Serbian-Montenegrin Chetniks . From 1942 to 1944 he acted as mayor of Plavë . From November 1944 to October 1948 he fought as an armed partisan against the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia . He then left the region and campaigned for Kosovo from exile. He died in Istanbul.

Honors

In 2012 he was posthumously awarded the "Order of Freedom" by President Atifete Jahjaga . Today a street is named after him in the municipality of Peć . The ruins in Pozhar in which he and his family lived were placed under temporary cultural protection in 2012.

literature

Pozhari. In: Fjalori enciklopedik shqiptar , Volume 3 (Albanian), Akademia e Shkencave e Shqipërisë , 2009, p. 2077. ( limited preview in Google book search)

Individual evidence

↑ Biography: " [1] "
Jump up ↑ Arber Gashi: Përpjekjet e Lidhjes së Dytë të Prizrenit për Jetësimin e Aspiratave jetike të Kombit Shqiptar. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. League of Prizren , January 29, 2016.
^ President Jahjaga awarded honors to a number of distinguished personalities. President of the Republic of Kosovo.
↑ Demë Ali Pozhari ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Komuna e Pejës.

^ The Stone Mansion of Demë Ali Pozhari (Decan). Database of the cultural heritage of Kosovo, Ministria e Kulturës, Rinisë dhe Sportit (MKRS), Pristina .

personal data
SURNAME	Pozhari, Demë Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Albanian co-founder and leader of the Albanian resistance movement and mayor of Pozhar
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pozhar , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH	April 26, 1975
Place of death	Istanbul , Turkey

[1] Biography: " [1] "

[2] Jump up ↑ Arber Gashi: Përpjekjet e Lidhjes së Dytë të Prizrenit për Jetësimin e Aspiratave jetike të Kombit Shqiptar. ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. League of Prizren , January 29, 2016.

[3] President Jahjaga awarded honors to a number of distinguished personalities. President of the Republic of Kosovo.

[4] Demë Ali Pozhari ( Memento of the original from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Komuna e Pejës.

[5] The Stone Mansion of Demë Ali Pozhari (Decan). Database of the cultural heritage of Kosovo, Ministria e Kulturës, Rinisë dhe Sportit (MKRS), Pristina .