Battle of Mashkullorë
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The Battle of Mashkullorë (March 18, 1908) (Albanian: Beteja e Mashkullorës), was one of the most important battles of Çerçiz Topulli against the Turkish occupation[1][2][3][4][5]
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2 wounded one of them Çerçiz Topulli | 20 killed[10] |
Background
On February 25, 1908 Çerçiz Topulli and his Albanian rebel group assassinated the Ottoman binbashi of Gjirokaster.[9] After the assassination of the Ottoman binbashi, Çerçiz Topulli and his Albanian rebels fled to Mashkullorë
Armed resistance in Mashkullorë
On March 18, the Albanian rebels and Çerçiz Topulli were surrounded by Ottoman forces.[11][12] The Ottoman forces had over 150 soldiers[13] and the Albanian rebels were outnumbered, nevertheless, Çerçiz Topulli was able to fight the soldiers, and emerge victorious.[11][14] The Albanian rebel group of the detachment faced for a whole day the relentless attacks of the Turkish forces and were able to break the siege. The Turkish forces lost 20 soldiers including their general.[15] The Albanian rebels, on the other hand, did not lose any soldiers, but Çerçiz Topulli and Myftar Axhemi were wounded.
References
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- ^ Central Intelligence Agency, United States (1962). Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts. Ohio State University: Ohio State University. pp. 54–55.
- ^ Language School (U.S.), Army (1955). 12-month Course in Albanian. University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign: Albanian Language Department, Army Language School.
- ^ "Lufta e Mashkullorës, beteja e Çerçiz Topullit kundër forcave osmane". www.syri.net. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ^ Tönnes 1980, p. 276.
- ^ "Lufta e Mashkullorës, beteja e Çerçiz Topullit kundër forcave osmane". www.syri.net. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
- ^ (Tirana, Albania), Instituti i Shkencave (1956). Buletin për shkencat shoqërore (in Albanian). Tirana, Albania: Botim i Institutit të Shkencave.
- ^ a b Ardian Ahmedaja (2008). Gerlinde Haid (ed.). European voices. I, Multipart singing in the Balkans and the Mediterranean. Wien: Böhlau. ISBN 978-3-205-78090-8. OCLC 300318847.
- ^ Hajro, Shemsi (1962). Në gjirin e lëvizjes patriotike (in Albanian). Albania: N. Frashëri. p. 153.
- ^ a b Tönnes, Bernhard (1980). Sonderfall Albanien : Enver Hoxhas "eigener Weg" u.d. historischen Ursprünge seiner Ideologie. München: Oldenbourg. ISBN 3-486-50321-9. OCLC 7112518.
- ^ Kacori, Thoma (1979). A handbook of Albanian (in English and Albanian). University of Michigan: Sofia University "Kliment Ohridski", Faculty of Slavonic Studies. p. 292.
- ^ Elsie, Robert (2010). Historical dictionary of Albania. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3. OCLC 659564122.
- ^ Bibliotheca Historica Romaniae (in English, French, and Romanian). University of Michigan: Publishing House of the Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania. 1979.
- ^ Frashëri, Kristo (1964). The History of Albania. University of Virginia: na. p. 343.
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