| Lidhja e Pejës | |
| Formation | 23 January 1899; 126 years ago (1899-01-23) |
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| Founder | Haxhi Zekaj |
| Dissolved | May 1900 |
| Legal status | disestablished |
| Purpose | Uniting Albania |
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| Leader | Haxhi Zeka |
TheLeague of Peja (Albanian:Lidhja e Pejës), also known asLeague of İpek orBesa-Besë (Pledge for a Pledge) betweenAlbanians,[1][2] was an Albanian political organization established in 1899 in the city of İpek (nowPeja),Kosovo Vilayet,Ottoman Empire. It was led byHaxhi Zeka, a former member of theLeague of Prizren, and shared the same aim of achieving an autonomousAlbanian vilayet within the Ottoman Empire.[citation needed] This organization was encouraged and supported byAustria-Hungary and directed against Ottoman reforms and againstSerbs fromKosovo Vilayet.[3]
Albanian patriotic circles had been seeing a need of creating a new organisation, similar to the first League of Prizren, and to include all the Albanian lands and place it in front of a national movement.
The first efforts for the creation of the League began in September 1896. Haxhi Zeka was named as head of this movement by the most influential Albanian leaders in the Ottoman province ofKosovo (Kosovo villayet was one of four Ottoman provinces –vilayets – with a significant Albanian presence).
Albanian leaders led by Haxhi Zeka organised a meeting in Yakova (nowGjakova) in March–April 1897 as a first step for the creation of the league. There were two groups of members. The first group of conservative and more moderate members wanted five vilayets (withSalonika vilayet included) to be united into the Albanian vilayet, and the second group of the more radical members wanted full administrative autonomy for the four vilayets united in the Albanian vilayet.[4]
The League ended its activity in 1900, after an armed conflict with the Ottoman forces. Zeka was assassinated by a Serbian agent Adem Zajmi in 1902.[5]
The purpose of the Albanian League of Peja, also known as Besa-Besë (Pledge for a Pledge)...
Тад покрет, познат под имен-ом „ПеНка лига" (1898——1899), помаган и подстицан од Аустро-Угарске, био је уперен против реформне акције Порте, али и против косовских Срба чија је егзистенција у вилајету сматрана...
The first, more moderate, wanted the five vilayets (this would include Thessaloniki) that were inhabited by Albanians to be united in the single province... plan receives support of the conservatives. The more radical group desired unification of just four vilayets, but with full administrative autonomy
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