{"id":6405,"date":"2026-01-23T12:17:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/09\/15\/the-assembly-of-peja\/---d66d93ca-bc09-42bc-91bc-421cb452ec09"},"modified":"2026-01-23T12:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T12:17:30","slug":"the-assembly-of-peja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/09\/15\/the-assembly-of-peja\/","title":{"rendered":"The Assembly of Peja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly of Peja convened in Peja, Kosova, where more than 450 representatives from all over Albania participated. The Assembly founded the organization that was called the &#8220;Albanian League of Peja&#8221; or &#8220;Besa-bes\u00eb&#8221;, a pan-Albanian political-military organization similar to the Albanian League of Prizren (1878). Haxhi Zeka was placed at the head of its management committee. The Assembly expressed its determination to oppose with the force of arms any attempt by the Balkan states, Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece for the fragmentation of the Albanian lands and demanded the unification of the four Albanian vilayets and their administration on the basis of a special statute or constitution. Immediately after the Assembly, local committees of the League were established in all Albanian territories, exercising the powers of local government. <i>(In the photo: Exterior view of the house where the &#8220;Peja League&#8221; was held.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 1,<\/i> Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 834.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Xhoxhi L., personal archive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Assembly of Peja convened in Peja, Kosovo, with the participation of over 450 representatives from all over Albania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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