Idriz Seferi

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Idriz Seferi (1910)

Idriz Seferi (* 1847 in Sefer west of Preševo , † March 25, 1927 ) was a leader of the Albanian national movement.

At a young age he fought against the cultural and economic oppression by the Ottomans . In 1875 he was captured by the Ottoman authorities. After his release, he participated in several Albanian uprisings and was a member of the League of Prizren and the League of Peja , which met in January 1899. Like Isa Boletini , he was one of the most important leaders of the Albanian uprisings in Kosovo in 1910, in which Albanians, enraged by new taxes, began to fight for their rights. Seferi was involved in the liberation of the cities of Ferizaj , Skopje , Kumanovo , Presheva and Gjilan from Ottoman troops. During the fighting in the Kaçanik Gorge from April 23 to 29, 1910, he led 5,000 Albanian fighters, who stopped an Ottoman army of almost 20,000 men there, which was able to end the uprising in the end.

The uprisings against the Young Turkish Government in the spring of 1912, in which Boletini and Bajram Curri were also involved, were led in the highly competitive environment of Ferizaj von Seferi. From October 1912 - during the First Balkan War - he fought with thousands of Albanian soldiers against Serbs near Bujanovac , Kumanovo, Llapi and Gollaku. He is considered to be one of the leaders of the Albanian uprisings of 1916, when Kosovo was occupied by Bulgarian troops during World War I.

Idriz Seferi died peacefully in his bed.

literature

  • Shaban Braha: Idriz Seferi në Lëvizjet Kombëtare Shqiptare , Shtëpia Botuese "8 Nëntori", Tirana 1981.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Owen Pearson: Albania in the Twentieth Century: A History - Volume I: Albania and King Zog (Independence, Republic and Monarchy 1908–1939) , Center For Albanian Studies / IB Tauris Publishers, London 2004, ISBN 1-84511- 013-7
  2. ↑ Bartl, Peter: Albania. From the Middle Ages to the present. Regensburg 1995. ISBN 3791714511
  3. ^ A b Robert Elsie: Historical Dictionary of Kosova , Scarecrow Press, 2004, ISBN 0810853094
  4. ↑ Fehmi Rexhepi et al .: Kosovo and its cultural riches , in: Werner Daum (editor): Albania - between cross and half moon, Pinguin Verlag, Innsbruck 1998, ISBN 3-7016-2461-5
personal data
SURNAME Seferi, Idriz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian freedom fighter
DATE OF BIRTH 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Sefer near Preševo , Kosovo
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1927