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  "ar": "باجرام كوري",
  "en": "Bajram Curri",
  "ur": "باجرام کری"
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  "ar": "زعيم وسياسي ألباني من مرتفعات غياكوفا، قاد النضال من أجل استقلال ألبانيا ثم من أجل ضمّ كوسوفو إليها، وكان من قادة لجنة الدفاع الوطني عن كوسوفو ووزيراً للحرب سنة 1921، ومات سنة 1925 وهو يقاوم قوات زوغو.",
  "en": "Albanian chieftain and politician from the Highlands of Gjakova who fought for the independence of Albania and then for Kosovo's incorporation into it; a leader of the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo and minister of war in 1921, he died in 1925 resisting Zogu's forces.",
  "ur": "گیاکووا کے پہاڑی علاقے سے تعلق رکھنے والے البانوی سردار اور سیاست دان، جنھوں نے البانیا کی آزادی اور پھر کوسوو کے اس میں انضمام کے لیے جدوجہد کی؛ کوسوو کی قومی دفاعی کمیٹی کے رہنما اور 1921 میں وزیرِ جنگ؛ 1925 میں زوغو کی افواج سے مزاحمت کرتے ہوئے وفات پائی۔"
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  "earliest": 1862.0415888074363,
  "latest": 1925.2406962497203
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   "edtf": "1862-01-16",
   "hijri": "1278",
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   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
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   "note": "Born on 16 January 1862 at Krushë e Madhe while his family was being taken under guard from Gjakova toward the prison at Prizren; the family came from Krasniqi in the Highlands of Gjakova. Most sources give 1862, but the English biography records that more recent sources based on his recently discovered passport give 1866 — hence debated. The Hijri year 1278 is derived by conversion and is marked derived. Krushë e Madhe, Gjakova and Prizren have no place entities on main, so the places are carried here.",
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    "source/wikipedia-bajram-curri-sq",
    "source/wikidata-bajram-curri"
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   "edtf": "1925-03-29",
   "hijri": "1343",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died on 29 March 1925 in a cave near Dragobi (Dragobia), surrounded by government troops after the fall of the June 1924 revolution; the English biography says he was killed by his own companions so that their lives would be spared, the Albanian biography that he took his own life. The Hijri year 1343 is derived by conversion and is marked derived.",
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   "edtf": "1862-01-16",
   "hijri": "1278",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Born on 16 January 1862 at Krushë e Madhe while his family was being taken under guard from Gjakova toward the prison at Prizren; the family came from Krasniqi in the Highlands of Gjakova. Most sources give 1862, but the English biography records that more recent sources based on his recently discovered passport give 1866 — hence debated. The Hijri year 1278 is derived by conversion and is marked derived. Krushë e Madhe, Gjakova and Prizren have no place entities on main, so the places are carried here.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
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   "edtf": "1925-03-29",
   "hijri": "1343",
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   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "Died on 29 March 1925 in a cave near Dragobi (Dragobia), surrounded by government troops after the fall of the June 1924 revolution; the English biography says he was killed by his own companions so that their lives would be spared, the Albanian biography that he took his own life. The Hijri year 1343 is derived by conversion and is marked derived.",
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   "general"
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   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "No source names a school for him. Wikidata's single structured family gives his religion only as Islam. His chieftaincy, his Ottoman gendarmerie service and his leadership in the Albanian national movement are office and national activity, which never count; there is no reading to preserve, so the value is unknown, unflagged.",
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   "wikidata": "Q372161"
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   "source": "English and Albanian Wikipedia biographies of Bajram Curri (Q372161) and the Wikidata item, read in full; every revision id was fetched live from the MediaWiki API in this session and asserted before use, and the QID was grounded through the English article's page properties. Identity: the queue line's bearer is the Albanian chieftain and Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo leader (1862–1925); the queue's years are confirmed, with the passport-based 1866 birth variant preserved as debated. Existence checks by name fragments (curri, bajram) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record. His father Shaqir Aga Curri has no person record, and leadership of the leagues and the Committee is never a relation, so relations are empty.",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "باجرام كوري ⁦(16 يناير 1862 – 29 مارس 1925)⁩ زعيم ألباني من مرتفعات غياكوفا أصبح من أبرز القادة العسكريين في الحركة الوطنية الألبانية.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-sq} وُلد في كروشة مادة لعائلة كوري من كراسنيقي — وتذكر مصادر أحدث، استناداً إلى جواز سفره المكتشف، أن سنة ميلاده 1866 — وخدم العثمانيين ضابطاً في الدرك، وشارك في ثورة حاجي زكا سنة 1893 وفي رابطة بيجا سنة 1899، وقاتل سنة 1912 في الانتفاضة الألبانية العامة ودخل سكوبيه مع قوات المتمردين.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}\n\nوخلال الحرب العالمية الأولى نظّم وحدات حرب عصابات عبر لجنة الدفاع الوطني عن كوسوفو التي كان من مؤسسيها، وبعد مؤتمر لوشنيه أصبح وزيراً بلا حقيبة ثم وزيراً للحرب في ديسمبر 1921 في حكومة حسن برشتينة القصيرة العمر.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en} وكان من أنصار ثورة يونيو 1924 بقيادة فان نولي، فحاصرته قوات الحكومة في كهف قرب دراغوبي في 29 مارس 1925 فمات هناك رافضاً الاستسلام.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}{cite:wikidata-bajram-curri}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Bajram Curri (16 January 1862 – 29 March 1925) was an Albanian chieftain from the Highlands of Gjakova who became one of the leading military figures of the Albanian national movement.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-sq} Born at Krushë e Madhe into the Curri family of Krasniqi — more recent sources, citing his discovered passport, give his birth year as 1866 — he served the Ottomans as a gendarmerie officer, took part in Haxhi Zeka's revolt of 1893 and in his League of Peja of 1899, and in 1912 fought in the general Albanian uprising and entered Skopje with the rebel forces.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}\n\nDuring the First World War he organized guerrilla units through the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo, of which he was a founding member, and after the Congress of Lushnja he served as minister without portfolio and, in December 1921, as minister of war in Hasan Prishtina's short-lived government.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en} A supporter of Fan Noli's June 1924 revolution, he was surrounded by government troops in a cave near Dragobi on 29 March 1925 and died there rather than be captured.{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}{cite:wikidata-bajram-curri}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "باجرام کری (16 جنوری 1862 – 29 مارچ 1925) گیاکووا کے پہاڑی علاقے سے تعلق رکھنے والے البانوی سردار تھے جو البانوی قومی تحریک کے ممتاز عسکری رہنماؤں میں شامل ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-sq} وہ کروشہ مادے میں کراسنیقی کے کوری خاندان میں پیدا ہوئے — بعض حالیہ ذرائع، ان کے دریافت شدہ پاسپورٹ کی بنیاد پر، ان کی پیدائش کا سال 1866 بتاتے ہیں — انھوں نے عثمانی ژاندارمری میں افسر کی حیثیت سے خدمات انجام دیں، 1893 میں حاجی زکا کی بغاوت اور 1899 میں ان کی لیگ آف پیجا میں حصہ لیا، اور 1912 میں عام البانوی بغاوت میں لڑتے ہوئے باغی افواج کے ساتھ سکوپیے میں داخل ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}\n\nپہلی جنگِ عظیم کے دوران انھوں نے کوسوو کی قومی دفاعی کمیٹی کے ذریعے گوریلا دستے منظم کیے، جس کے وہ بانی ارکان میں سے تھے، اور لوشنیہ کانگریس کے بعد وہ وزیرِ بلا قلمدان اور پھر دسمبر 1921 میں حسن پرشتینہ کی مختصر المدت حکومت میں وزیرِ جنگ بنے۔{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en} وہ فان نولی کی جون 1924 کی تحریک کے حامی تھے؛ 29 مارچ 1925 کو سرکاری افواج نے دراغوبی کے قریب ایک غار میں ان کا محاصرہ کیا اور انھوں نے گرفتاری کے بجائے وہیں موت قبول کی۔{cite:wikipedia-bajram-curri-en}{cite:wikidata-bajram-curri}"
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