Çerçiz Topulli

Çerçiz Topulli
Çerçiz Topulli in a rare photo
Born	1880 Gjirokastër, Albania (then Ottoman Empire)
Died	1915 (aged 35) Shkoder, Albania
Occupation	kachak, rilindas
Ethnicity	Albanian
Literary movement	Albanian National Revival

Çerçiz Topulli (1880 - 15 July 1915) was an Albanian Rennaissance armed fighter, writer, and patriot, and is a People's Hero of Albania. He was the younger brother of Bajo Topulli.^[1]

In April 1907 he led the movement that acted against the Ottoman Empire in Southern Albania. He took the decision of killing the Gjirokastër's Turkish commander and led the Mashkullora War on March 18, 1908.^[2]

He wrote an article "From the Mountains of Albania" in the journal "The Hope of Albania" in its issue of January 1907. In that article he condemned the many thefts that the Turkish administration would commit towards the Albanains and asked for full independence of Albania. In the article he made calls for an armed insurgency.^[1]

After the proclamation of the independence of Albania on November 28, 1912 Topulli fought to protect Albania from the Montenegrins. He was killed in the Shtoi plain (Shkoder) from the Montenegrin invadors. In 1937 his bones were brought back to Gjirokastër.^[3][4]

References

• The Albanians: an ethnic history from prehistoric times to the present By Edwin E. Jacques page 262 [1]

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.gazeta-albania.net/news.php?id=2771
2. ^ http://forumishqiptar.com/showthread.php?t=91914
3. ^ http://korcajone.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1831
4. ^ http://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87er%C3%A7iz_Topulli

Persondata
Name	Topulli, Cerciz
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Short description
Date of birth	1880
Place of birth	Gjirokastër, Albania (then Ottoman Empire)
Date of death	15 July 1915
Place of death	Shkoder, Albania