{"id":7069,"date":"2026-07-15T00:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/16\/mustafa-hilmi-leskoviku\/---74b75389-53a6-4634-91cb-b87fd40d1c8c"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:15:27","slug":"mustafa-hilmi-leskoviku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/07\/15\/mustafa-hilmi-leskoviku\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustafa Hilmi Leskoviku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mustafa Hilmi Leskoviku (known as Mu\u00e7o Qulli), activist of the National Renaissance, democratic publicist, and fighter in armed resistance bands, was killed by Montenegrin forces in the Field of Shtoi (Shkod\u00ebr). He was born in Leskovik in 1887. He completed high school in Manastir and pursued higher studies in jurisprudence at the Faculty of Law of the University of Istanbul. He became involved with Albanian patriotic circles from a young age. In Manastir, he was active as a member of the society &#8220;Bashkimi&#8221; and published the newspaper &#8220;Drita&#8221; (1911\u20131912). He participated in the general liberation uprising of 1912. Upon the declaration of independence, he was appointed deputy minister of education in the Provisional Government of Vlor\u00eb (1912). In 1914\u20131915, he published the newspaper &#8220;Populli&#8221; (initially in Vlor\u00eb and later in Shkod\u00ebr), in which he advocated for the issues of freedom, independence, and territorial integrity of Albania. He wrote and published numerous articles and political analyses under the pseudonym &#8220;Mu\u00e7o Qulli <i>(In the photo: Mustafa Hilmi Leskoviku)<\/i><\/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 1471-1472.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.pressreader.com\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustafa Hilmi Leskoviku (known as Mu\u00e7o Qulli), activist of the National Renaissance, democratic publicist, and fighter in armed resistance bands, was killed by Montenegrin forces in the Field of Shtoi (Shkod\u00ebr).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7069","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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