{"id":7502,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/astrit-bytyci\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:21","slug":"astrit-bytyci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/astrit-bytyci\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrit Byty\u00e7i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Astrit Byty\u00e7i, a fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army, a martyr, was killed in the mountains of Pashtrik (Kosovo). He was born in Ferizaj, in 1975. He studied Albanian language and literature at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Pristina. In April 1998, he joined the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army, in the Drenica area. He continued his combat activity in Ferizaj, then joined the soldiers going to Albania for armaments (November 1998). On December 13, 1998, together with many other soldiers, with equipment and weapons and led by commander Muj\u00eb Krasniqi, they entered Kosovo from Albania. He was killed when, together with 148 other fighters in the convoy, he was ambushed by Serbian forces in the Pashtrik mountains. <i>(In the photo: Astrit Byty\u00e7i)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>The encyclopedic dictionary of Kosovo &#8211; Vol. I <\/i>, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Prishtina, 2018, page 245.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/277539985611068\/photos\/a.954119464619780\/3738421272856238\/?type=3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrit Byty\u00e7i, a fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army and a martyr, was killed in the Pashtrik mountains in Kosovo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7502","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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