{"id":8195,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/ismail-nikoci\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:20","slug":"ismail-nikoci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/ismail-nikoci\/","title":{"rendered":"Ismail Niko\u00e7i"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Barbullush, Shkodra, <\/span>Ismail<\/span> Nikoçi<\/span>, a <\/span>fighter<\/span> for<\/span> the <\/span>defense<\/span> of<\/span> Albanian<\/span> lands<\/span> and<\/span> a participant in the <\/span>movement<\/span> for<\/span> liberation<\/span> and<\/span> national<\/span> unification<\/span> in the <\/span>northern<\/span> Albanian<\/span> territories<\/span> occupied<\/span> by <\/span>Montenegro<\/span> and<\/span> Serbia, <\/span>was<\/span> killed<\/span>. He <\/span>was<\/span> born<\/span> in Guci, in 1876. <\/span>His<\/span> father<\/span> was<\/span> a <\/span>close<\/span> associate<\/span> of<\/span> Ali<\/span> Pasha Guci. He <\/span>was<\/span> educated<\/span> in Pej<\/span>e<\/span> and<\/span> Thessaloniki<\/span>, <\/span>where<\/span> he <\/span>also<\/span> graduated<\/span>. <\/span>For<\/span> his<\/span> anti-Ottoman<\/span> stance<\/span>, he <\/span>was<\/span> arrested<\/span> and<\/span> exiled<\/span> twice<\/span> in 1906 <\/span>and<\/span> 1909. In 1912 he <\/span>fought<\/span> for<\/span> the <\/span>defense<\/span> of<\/span> his<\/span> province <\/span>from<\/span> the <\/span>Montenegrins<\/span>. <\/span>Then<\/span>, <\/span>during<\/span> the <\/span>years<\/span> 1912-1913 <\/span>and<\/span> 1914, he <\/span>worked<\/span> alongside<\/span> Isa <\/span>Boletini<\/span> and<\/span> other<\/span> patriots<\/span> in Vlora <\/span>and<\/span> Durrës. He <\/span>was<\/span> arrested<\/span> by the <\/span>Montenegrins<\/span> in Shkodër <\/span>and<\/span> imprisoned<\/span>. In the <\/span>years<\/span> 1916-1917 he <\/span>led<\/span> the <\/span>municipality<\/span> of<\/span> Guci, <\/span>doing<\/span> a <\/span>good<\/span> job<\/span> for<\/span> the <\/span>introduction<\/span> of<\/span> Albanians<\/span> in the <\/span>local<\/span> administration<\/span> and<\/span> the <\/span>opening<\/span> of<\/span> Albanian<\/span> sc<\/span>ho<\/span>ols<\/span>. He <\/span>spent<\/span> the <\/span>years<\/span> 1917-1918 in <\/span>exile<\/span> in Austria. He <\/span>had<\/span> a central role in the <\/span>resistance<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>population<\/span> of<\/span> Guci <\/span>against<\/span> the <\/span>Serbian-Montenegro<\/span> reoccupation<\/span> in the <\/span>period<\/span> November<\/span> 1918-February 1919, <\/span>alongside<\/span> Hasan<\/span> Ferri. <\/span>Ismail<\/span> Nikoçi<\/span> was<\/span> one<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>main<\/span> leaders<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>branch<\/span> of<\/span> the <\/span>Committee<\/span> “<\/span>National<\/span> Defense<\/span> of<\/span> Kosovo<\/span>” <\/span>for<\/span> the province <\/span>of<\/span> Plavë-Gucia. <\/span><\/span>(In the <\/span>p<\/span>ho<\/span>to<\/span>: <\/span>Ismail<\/span> Nikoçi<\/span>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/span><\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>Marenglen<\/span> Verli<\/span>, <\/span><\/span>101 <\/span>profiles<\/span> from<\/span> Kosovo<\/span> for<\/span> Kosovo<\/span> <\/span>, <\/span>Academy<\/span> of<\/span> Sciences<\/span> of<\/span> Albania<\/span>, “<\/span>Adel-co<\/span>“, Tirana, 2017, page 591.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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P<\/span>ho<\/span>to<\/span><\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© <\/span>Verli<\/span> M., personal <\/span>archive<\/span>.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Barbullush, Shkod\u00ebr, Ismail Niko\u00e7i was killed, a fighter for the defense of Albanian territories and a participant in the movement for liberation and national unification in the northern Albanian regions occupied by Montenegro and Serbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195","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=8195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12129,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8195\/revisions\/12129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}