Luma (region)
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Lumë (
Only a small portion of the region, half of historic
city to the border between Kosovo and Albania.During the
History
The region is documented first in the 16th century (1571 -1591), as a
It is thought that before the 18th century the timar system was replaced by the self-governing system of bajrak.[4] Luma has had 7 bajraks:[2]
- Bajrak of Rrafsha (the bajraktar was centered in Bicaj),
- Bajrak of Tejdrina (the bajraktar was centered in Ujmisht and then in Domaj),
- Bajrak of Qafa (the bajraktar was centered in Bushtricë),
- Bajrak of Kalisi (the bajraktar was centered in Zallë-Kalis),
- Bajrak of Radomira (the bajraktar was centered in Tejs),
- Bajrak of Çaja (the bajraktar was centered in Fshat),
- Bajrak of Topojan (the bajraktar was centered in Brekijë).
The last organization of these bajraks was done in 1912 in the battle of
Battle of Lumë
Leo Freundlich, an Austrian correspondent who was in Luma at the time, reported that General Bozidar Jankovic, ordered his army to commit massacres of the Albanians of Luma resulting in entire villages being burned down with the inhabitants being burned or slaughtered alive. All in all, twenty-seven villages on Luma territory were burnt to the ground and their inhabitants slain, even the children. It was here that one of the most appalling atrocities of the Serbian war of annihilation was committed against the Albanians. Women and children were tied to bundles of hay and set on fire before the eyes of their husbands and fathers. The women were then barbarously cut to pieces and the children bayoneted. A colleague of Freundlich wrote "It is all so inconceivable, and yet it is true!" Four hundred men from Luma who gave themselves up voluntarily were taken to Prizren and executed day after day in groups of forty to sixty.
Notable people
- Baba Hajji Dede Reshat Bardhi - Grandfather of Bektashi Order
- Muharrem Bajraktari (1896 — 1989) - World War II fighter and politician
- grand vizier, Ottoman military figure, and statesman
- Ditmar Bicaj (1989–), Footballer
References
- ISBN 978-1-78453-401-1.
- ^ a b c d Fejzulla Gjabri (Department of Culture of Albania), Information about the Heroic Epos in the Province of Luma
- ^ ISBN 9780199683031.
- ^ HOXHA, Shefqet. "BAJRAKTARËT E LUMËS". Pashtriku. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
Megjithëse deri tani nuk është shpaluar ndonjë akt zyrtar i Perandorisë Osmane që ligjëronte zëvendësimin e sistemit të timarit në malësi me atë të njësive vetëqeverisëse tradicionale dhe si njësi administrative-ushtarake osmane me emrin "bajrak", ky proces mendohet të ketë nisur para shek.XVIII
Bibliography
- https://web.archive.org/web/20120531131757/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts20_1/AH1913_1.html "Albanian Golgotha: Exterminators of the Albanian People by Leo Freundlich in 1913"