1. Hasan Prishtina wrote that his grandfather, Haxhi Ali Berisha, who moved to Vushtrri in 1871, was the son of Abdullah Ali Berisha.
19 Facts About Hasan Prishtina
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Hasan Prishtina said that family's links to the Drenica region were celebrated with songs and other traditions.
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Hasan Prishtina was born in 1873 in Vushtrri and had one brother named Ymer.
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Hasan Prishtina initially supported the Young Turk Revolution of 1908.
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Hasan Prishtina was elected to the Ottoman parliament in 1908 and became affiliated to the Young Turk party.
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Hasan Prishtina changed his last name to Prishtina in 1908, when he was elected as Pristina's delegate in the Ottoman parliament in Istanbul during the Second Constitutional Era.
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Actions by the Ottoman government against rebels and civilians in Kosovo during 1909 led Hasan Prishtina to publish an article titled "Albanians" in the Young Turk newspaper Tanin.
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Hasan Prishtina stressed that force was unproductive and unable to bring peace and security while reforms were needed following the example of Midhat Pasha.
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Hasan Prishtina expressed that sentiment in an analogy delivered to parliament in early May 1911.
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In 1911, Hasan Prishtina wrote a chapter on the revolt of Albanian highlanders and highlighted their important duties surrounding border defense in an edited book titled Musaver Arnavud in Ottoman Turkish by Dervish Hima.
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Mehmed V dissolved parliament and called for new elections on 17 January 1912 with Hasan Prishtina going to Kosovo shortly thereafter to begin the organisation of the uprising.
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Hasan Prishtina however retreated from insisting upon autonomy that disappointed some Albanian nationalists.
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Hasan Prishtina became a head of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo in Rome in 1918.
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Hasan Prishtina was in charge of the delegation of the Committee in December 1919 which represented Albanians for the protection of their rights in the Paris Peace Conference, where he requested the unification of Kosovo and Albania.
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When Zogu took power in December 1924, Hasan Prishtina was forced to leave Albania.
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Hasan Prishtina was an enemy of Zogu, the two having attempted to assassinate one another.
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Hasan Prishtina was imprisoned by the Yugoslav police for a period, but was released in 1931.
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In 2012 a statue of Hasan Prishtina was elevated in Skopje in Skanderbeg Square [1].
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Hasan Bej Prishtina is honored by the Albanians as an important national hero and freedom fighter.