{"id":6595,"date":"2026-03-10T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/11\/musa-juka\/---299b3939-c5f3-403d-89f1-3ae8a030af1c"},"modified":"2026-03-10T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T02:49:08","slug":"musa-juka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/03\/10\/musa-juka\/","title":{"rendered":"Musa Juka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musa Juka, political activist, was born in Shkod\u00ebr. He finished high school in his hometown. In 1900, he entered the service of the Ottoman administration in the finance office in Shkod\u00ebr and in 1912, he became the office director. With the entry of Austro-Hungarian troops into Shkodra (1916), he was appointed mayor of P\u00ebrlimtara (municipality). He was elected Mayor of Shkodra in 1921. In April 1917, he was a member of the Albanian delegation that visited Emperor Charles I in Vienna, where he was decorated with the Cross of <i>Kreshniks <\/i>of Franz Joseph. He left Albania after the victory of the Democratic Revolution of June 1924. He returned at the end of that year as the head of several armed forces from Podgorica, in support of Ahmet Zogu. Minister of Internal Affairs (1926\u20131927, 1930\u20131935 and 1936\u20131939), Minister of Agriculture (1925\u20131927), Minister of Agriculture and Forestry (1928\u20131929), Minister of National Economy (1929) \u20131930), deputy (1926\u20131939). After the fascist invasion, he left Albania. Died in Alexandria, Egypt. <i>(In the photo: Musa Juka)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 2 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 1074.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Musa_Juka&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musa Juka, political activist, was born in Shkod\u00ebr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Musa Juka - 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