{"id":7363,"date":"2023-11-06T10:08:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/11\/06\/hajdar-tafa\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:09","slug":"hajdar-tafa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/11\/06\/hajdar-tafa\/","title":{"rendered":"Hajdar Tafa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">In the Mirdita Fan area, Hajdar Tafa, participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War and People&#8217;s Defense Ward, Hero of the People, was killed. He was born in the village of Banaj in Berat, in 1920. He joined the partisan ranks, first in the Youth Battalion (1944), then in the X Assault Brigade. After the liberation, he served in the People&#8217;s Army, in the People&#8217;s Defense Department (1946) and in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (1949). He took part in many combat actions against armed groups hostile to the regime in power. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Statue of Hajdar Tafa, Berat.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2652.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hajdar_Tafa\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hajdar_Tafa<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hajdar Tafa, a participant in the National Liberation Anti-Fascist War and in the People&#8217;s Defense units, a People&#8217;s Hero, was killed in the Fan area of Mirdita.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7363","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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