{"id":7872,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/the-actions-for-the-liberation-of-corovoda\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:52","slug":"the-actions-for-the-liberation-of-corovoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/the-actions-for-the-liberation-of-corovoda\/","title":{"rendered":"The actions for the liberation of \u00c7orovoda"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The “Actions for the <\/span>Li<\/span>be<\/span>ra<\/span>tion of<\/span> Çorovod<\/span>a<\/span>,” offensive battles against the fascist invaders, took place during the first phase (July 1942-April 1943) of the Anti-Fascist National <\/span>Li<\/span>be<\/span>ra<\/span>tion War, carried out by partisan u<\/span>nits. These actions began with the encirclement, capture, and complete disarmament of a mi<\/span>li<\/span>tia company in the village of <\/span>Melovë<\/span> in Sk<\/span>ra<\/span>par, intensifying particularly between September 3rd and 5th against 1,000 mi<\/span>li<\/span>tiamen and ca<\/span>ra<\/span>binieri, <\/span>ultimately leadin<\/span>g<\/span> to the <\/span>li<\/span>be<\/span>ra<\/span>tion of<\/span> Çorovod<\/span>a<\/span> on September 5, 1942. Following this, from September 11th to 13th, the enemy launched a larger ope<\/span>ra<\/span>tion with reinforcements aimed at recapturing<\/span> Çorovod<\/span>a<\/span> and restoring the regime of occupation throughout Sk<\/span>ra<\/span>par; however, t<\/span>hey were unable to achieve their <\/span>objectives<\/span>. The offensive actions of the partisan detachments in Sk<\/span>ra<\/span>par continued relentlessly during October and November 1942, culminating in the annihilation of the last fascist detachment in<\/span> Çorovod<\/span>a<\/span> on December 7th. O<\/span>n December 11th, the enemy <\/span>initiated<\/span> a large-scale ope<\/span>ra<\/span>tion from multiple directions, supported by aviation, but <\/span>faced repeated attacks from local partisans, who coordinated their efforts with guerrilla units in Be<\/span>ra<\/span>t and <\/span>Lushnje<\/span>, even shooting down two e<\/span>nemy planes.<\/span> Çorovod<\/span>a<\/span> was eventually <\/span>li<\/span>be<\/span>ra<\/span>ted, becoming one of the most important bases of the Anti-Fascist National <\/span>Li<\/span>be<\/span>ra<\/span>tion War. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: View from<\/em><\/span> Çorovod<\/span>a<\/span><\/em>.)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 1<\/span><\/span>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kris<\/span>ta<\/span>li<\/span>na-KH”, Ti<\/span>ra<\/span>na, 2008, page 37-38.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%87orovod%C3%AB<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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G<\/span>ra<\/span><\/strong>phic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The “Actions for the Liberation of \u00c7orovod\u00eb” were carried out as offensive battles against the fascist occupiers by partisan units in the first phase (July 1942\u2013April 1943) of the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11486,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/11486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}