{"id":6872,"date":"2026-07-09T00:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/12\/kole-mirdita\/---526dee91-237b-4501-b98c-9368633dbce8"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:09:12","slug":"kole-mirdita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/07\/09\/kole-mirdita\/","title":{"rendered":"Kol\u00eb Mirdita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kol\u00eb Mirdita, a fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army, martyr, was killed by a grenade on the Kosovo-Albania border, at the place called Rrasa e Zogut. He was born in the village of Ranoc in the municipality of Klina, in 1976. He joined the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army at the beginning of 1998. He participated in the battles in Drenica and Dukagjin and in Lugun e Drini. He was killed when he was returning with a group of 400 fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army from Albania, where they had been equipped with weapons. Three years later, in the center of Zllakuqan (Kosovo), a tombstone was built in honor of the work of the martyr Kol\u00eb Mirdita. <i>(In the photo: Kole Mirdita)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Encyclopedic Dictionary of Kosovo &#8211; Vol. II <\/i>, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2018, page 1112.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 http:\/\/www.zemrashqiptare.net\/news\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kol\u00eb Mirdita, a fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army, martyr, was killed by a grenade on the Kosovo-Albania border, at the place called Rrasa e Zogut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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