Prenk Bib Doda

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Prenk Bib Doda

Prince Prenk Bib Doda (also Prenk Pasha , Preng and Bibe Doda , * 1860 in Orosh . Died 25. March 1919 in Bregu i Matit in Lezha ) was an Albanian - Catholic member of the Young Turks , who under Sultan Abdulhamid II. To brigadier general rise and later fought with the Principality of Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire .

Prenk Doda was born in the former Mirdita County as the son of Bib Dod Pascha from the Gjonmarkaj clan. His father had received the title of Pasha from the Turks because he had helped to suppress the Albanian uprising of 1843-44 against the Tanzimat reforms. Prênk spent his youth in the Ottoman capital Istanbul and returned to Mirdita in 1876. He then helped Montenegro to instigate an uprising against the Ottomans and in 1878 participated in the League of Prizren .

Because of this, Doda was exiled to Anatolia by the Ottoman government , but gradually worked his way up to brigadier general in the palace of Sultan Abdülhamid II . In Istanbul, Doda became a member of the Young Turks. He was released after the Young Turkish Revolution in 1908. At the Monastir Congress in 1908, Doda sent a telegram to express his support for the bashkimi alphabet , which he found useful for communication and trade. In 1911 Doda became a member of the Ottoman Parliament . He expressed his rejection of a possible division of the four Albanian Vilayets to the neighbors Bulgaria , Montenegro and Serbia to the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador at the Sublime Porte .

Prenk Bib Doda 1914

After his relationship with the other Young Turks worsened, Doda received advances on the part of the Principality of Montenegro in order to found its own Catholic state to help Montenegro in the Balkan Wars . Doda then led an uprising against the Reich and on October 26, 1911 founded a provisional government with Terenzio Tocci . In order to receive support from Catholic volunteers from the northern mountain regions around the Mirdita during the uprising of Albanian Muslims in 1914 , Prince Wilhelm zu Wied appointed Doda as Foreign Minister of the Principality of Albania that same year . The government placed a unit of 5,000 to 7,000 men under the command of Doda. Doda's volunteers and a so-called “International Gendarmerie” from the Netherlands were supported by Abdülhamid's former bodyguard Isa Boletini and his men from Kosovo , as well as by 2000 tribesmen from Mat under the command of Ahmet Zogu .

The Dutch gendarmes tried to capture Shijak with Doda, but were captured by the Albanian insurgents on May 23rd. An expeditionary unit from Durrës who wanted to free them was also captured. A third attack on June 23 also failed - about 15 miles north of Durres near Slinzë, where Prênk was captured and paroled by the Albanians themselves. It is believed that Prênk had betrayed Prince Wilhelm. He put down his arms and joined the Albanian insurgents.

After the First World War , Prênk served as Deputy Prime Minister in the government of Turhan Pasha Përmeti .

At the Durres Congress in 1918, Doda was elected Vice President. His relationship with the Italian colonizers in Albania was strained, which is why he turned to the British diplomats. On March 22, 1919, Prenk Bib Doda was killed in an ambush by the gang of Preng Gjeta Caku on his journey from Durres to Shëngjin . His assassination was commissioned and financed by the Italians, and the British diplomat Eden accompanying Prênk was wounded.

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ A b c Robert Elsie : Historical Dictionary of Albania . In: Historical Dictionaries of Europe . 2nd Edition. tape 75 . Scarecrow Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6 , pp. 114 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 14, 2013]).
  5. ↑ Stavro Skendi: The Albanian national awakening . Princeton University Press, Princeton 1967, ISBN 978-1-4008-4776-1 , pp. 439 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ^ A b Duncan Heaton-Armstrong : The Six Month Kingdom: Albania 1914 . IB Tauris, 2005, ISBN 978-1-85043-761-1 , pp. 92 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 14, 2013]).
  7. ^ Robert Elsie: Albania under prince Wied. January 25, 2011; Archived from the original on January 25, 2011 ; accessed on January 25, 2011 : "... mostly volunteers from Kosova under their leader Isa Boletini"
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  10. ↑ Sejfi Vllamasi: Ballafaqime politike në Shqipëri (1897-1942): kujtime dhe vlerësime historike . Shtëpia Botuese "Marin Barleti", 1995, OCLC 37228559 , V ( here ).
  11. ^ John Swire: Albania: The Rise of a Kingdom . Arno Press, New York 1971, pp. 354 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
personal data
SURNAME Doda, Prenk Bib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prenk Pasha; Doda, Preng Bibë; Doda, Prenk Bibë
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian general
DATE OF BIRTH 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Orosh
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1919
Place of death Bregu i Matit near Lezha