Spartak Ngjela, a lawyer, politician, Minister of Justice in the Government of National Reconciliation, Chairman of the Commission for Legal Affairs, Public Administration, and Human Rights, was born in Tirana.
Dom Mark Gjani, clergyman, martyr of the Catholic Church, was born in Saint George of Montenegro, which at that time belonged to the Diocese of Shkodra.
The "Battles of Mazhik" took place, the first direct confrontation of the Kosovo Liberation Army with the Serbian army and the longest war of the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1998.
