Marka Gjoni

Kapedan Marka Gjoni (1861-1925) was the chieftain of the Mirdita region and tribe in North Albania. He was born in Orosh. He was assigned as Kaymakam of Mirdita by the Ottoman Empire during the absence of Prenk Bibë Doda who was interned in Anatolia due to his participation in the Albanian League of Prizren.[1]
Marka Gjoni is mostly remembered for the short-lived Mirdita Republic of 1921.[2]

  1. ^ Besnik Pula (2013), "State building in the Albanian highlands", in Julian Go (ed.), Decentering Social Theory: 25 (Political Power and Social Theory), Emerald Group, p. 47, ISBN 978-1-78190-727-6
  2. ^ Thomas Kacza (2007), Zwischen Feudalismus und Stalinismus: albanische Geschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Trafo, p. 73, ISBN 9783896266118