Albanian national Hero and guerrilla fighter. Isa bey Boletini (1864-1916) was born in the village of Boletin near Mitrovica. He was one of the great freedom fighters of Kosova at the turn of the last century. After the rise of the League of Prizren, he took part as a young man in the Battle of Slivova against Turkish forces on 22 April 1881. In 1902, Boletini was appointed head of the personal "Albanian guard" of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (r. 1876-1909) in Istanbul, where he spent most of the next four years and acquired the title "bey." He was loyal to the sultan, but, in 1908, he gave his initial support to the Young Turks. When Xhavid Pasha sent an army of 7,000 men to subdue Kosova in November 1908, however, he and a handful of friends put up fierce resistance. After their escape, Turkish troops burned his house down in revenge. In 1909 Boletini led fighting in Prishtina, Prizren and elsewhere, and played an important role in the general uprising in Kosova in the spring of 1910, where he held Turkish forces at bay in Caraleva, between Ferizaj and Prizren, for two days. During the first Balkan War in 1912, he led armed guerrillas in Kosova and later in Albania proper, in support of the provisional government which proclaimed Albanian independence in Vlora on 28 November 1912.
In March 1913, Boletini accompanied Ismail Qemal bey Vlora to London to seek British support for the new country. Historian Edwin Jacques reports the anecdote that "upon entering the British Foreign Office building to plead his nation's cause, the security police asked him to remove the pistol from his belt and check it in the vestibule. He complied with no objection. Following the interview, the foreign secretary, Sir Edward Grey, accompanied Boletini to the vestibule where he put the pistol back in his belt. The foreign secretary remarked with a smile, 'General, the newspapers might record tomorrow that Isa Boletini, whom even Mahmut Shefqet Pasha could not disarm, was just disarmed in London.' Boletini replied with a broad smile, 'No, no, not in London either,' and he withdrew from his pocket a second pistol." Boletini returned to Albania, where his troops defended Prince Wilhelm zu Wied until the latter's departure from Albania. He was later interned in Podgorica where he is said to have been killed in a shoot-out.
Texti Shqip - Albanian Lyrics
Ministrit ne Londer shkunë i than
Isa Boletini vet ka ardh
mban allti o dhe ksul te bardhë
Duhet prit siç esht zakoni
me kujdes ta kontrolloni
ju gjeneral o vet ta shoqeroni
Hyni Isai me koken lart
pala xhamadanit i rin hap
si shqiponja heu more kur hap kratë
Me kan than se je trim mali
as kerkush armet sti ndali
vec ne Europe une do jem i pari
Sa per rregulla i zbatova
njanen arm une e dorzova
po ket tjetren prej brezi o se nxora
Mos besofsh o ta kallzoj
te nentë plumbat i mar ne goj
Ismail Qemali vet o ma dhuroj
Lordi plak mbeti pa mend
asnji fjalë se foli vec bon me shenjë
ulu mor shqiptarë ne tbojna kuvend
Nuk kam ardh ktu o zotni
ne pallat te Londres me u vra me ty
vec me tthan se ka Shqiperi.
Une kalova detin ktu me ardh
me ka çu populli Shqiptar
veç kraljive me ja thon dy fjalë.
Kush ka thon se ska Shqiperi
nuk degjon me vesh as sheh me sy
e korit mor veten e tij
Se Shqiperia esht aj dhe
ku ka lind aj Skenderbe
portes lart mor i ka vu fre
Detin ndoshta mun ta thani
edhe ndoshta shteret oqeani
o vendin tim o more o smun ta fali.
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miloti200906 3 months ago
jam krenar qe jam shqiptar
miloti200906 3 months ago 2
ohjom krenar qejom Shqiptar meu meumbur meshum krenari me Trimat te Kombit Shqiptar Lavdi perjet eshebull per Brezat e Ri - te Pershendes perzemersisht.Uskana5 perket inqizim tebukur se Shqipe Kastratit ikahije mekenduket keng Pershendetje Tung Tung
MuhamedNikqi 11 months ago
Isa Trimi Hero I Kombit Shqiptar
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