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  "ar": "حاجي زكا",
  "en": "Haxhi Zeka",
  "ur": "حاجی زکا"
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  "ar": "قائد وطني ألباني من بيجا، من منظّمي رابطة بريزرن (1878) ورئيس رابطة بيجا (1899)، قاد المقاومة المسلحة دفاعاً عن الحكم الذاتي الألباني وسلامة أراضيه حتى اغتياله سنة 1902.",
  "en": "Albanian national leader from Peja, an organizer of the League of Prizren (1878) and chairman of the League of Peja (1899), who led armed resistance for Albanian autonomy and territorial integrity until his assassination in 1902.",
  "ur": "پیجا سے تعلق رکھنے والے البانوی قومی رہنما، لیگ آف پریزرن (1878) کے منتظمین میں سے ایک اور لیگ آف پیجا (1899) کے چیئرمین؛ انھوں نے 1902 میں اپنے قتل تک البانوی خودمختاری اور علاقائی سالمیت کے لیے مسلح مزاحمت کی قیادت کی۔"
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   "note": "Born on 20 December 1832 at Shoshan (Shoshani) in the Highlands of Gjakova, son of Mehmet, son of Abedin Byberi; the family moved to Peja, where he became a landowner. The Hijri year 1248 is derived by conversion and is marked derived. Shoshan and Peja have no place entities on main, so the places are carried here.",
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   "note": "Assassinated at Peja on 21 February 1902 by the gendarmerie captain Adem Zajmi, with Ottoman support; he was buried in the cemetery of the Sultan Mehmed Fatih Mosque in Peja. The Hijri year 1319 is derived by conversion and is marked derived.",
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    "value": "Haxhi Zekë Byberi",
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    "value": "Haxhi Zeka",
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    "value": "Haxhi Zejneli",
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    "value": "Haci Zeka",
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   "note": "Born on 20 December 1832 at Shoshan (Shoshani) in the Highlands of Gjakova, son of Mehmet, son of Abedin Byberi; the family moved to Peja, where he became a landowner. The Hijri year 1248 is derived by conversion and is marked derived. Shoshan and Peja have no place entities on main, so the places are carried here.",
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   "edtf": "1902-02-21",
   "hijri": "1319",
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   "note": "Assassinated at Peja on 21 February 1902 by the gendarmerie captain Adem Zajmi, with Ottoman support; he was buried in the cemetery of the Sultan Mehmed Fatih Mosque in Peja. The Hijri year 1319 is derived by conversion and is marked derived.",
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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. The element Haxhi in his name is the hajj title he bore and never counts as an attestation of a school, and his leadership of the nationally mixed Albanian leagues is national-movement activity, which never counts; there is nothing to preserve as a reading, so the value is unknown, unflagged.",
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   "source": "English and Albanian Wikipedia biographies of Haxhi Zeka (Q3299641) 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 League of Peja leader of Peja (1832–1902); the queue's years are confirmed exactly. Existence checks by name fragments (zeka, byberi) and by QID across data/person on origin/main found no prior record. His father Mehmet Byberi has no person record and leadership of the two leagues is never a relation, so relations are empty.",
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    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "حاجي زكا ⁦(20 ديسمبر 1832 – 21 فبراير 1902)⁩، وُلد باسم حاجي زكە بيبري في شوشان بمرتفعات غياكوفا، وهو مالك أراضٍ ألباني من بيجا أصبح من منظّمي رابطة بريزرن وعضواً في لجنتها المركزية في جمعيتها التأسيسية في 10 يونيو 1878.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-sq} قاد قوات الرابطة في غياكوفا في سبتمبر 1878 ضد محمد علي باشا، وقاتل في الدفاع عن بلاف وغوسيني ضد الجبل الأسود في 1879–1880 وضد جيش درويش باشا سنة 1881، وقاد انتفاضات ضد العثمانيين في 1884–85 ثم من جديد مع بيرم توري سنة 1893 — وبعدها اعتُقل في إسطنبول حتى سنة 1896.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}\n\nوفي يناير 1899 ترأس جمعية بيجا التي حضرها نحو 450 من وجهاء ألبان كوسوفو، فأسّست رابطة بيجا ⁦(بيسا-بيسه)⁩ وانتخبته رئيساً للجنتها؛ وعمل على مدّ الرابطة إلى الأراضي الألبانية حتى قمعها الجيش العثماني سنة 1900.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en} وفي 21 فبراير 1902 اغتيل في بيجا على يد آدم زايمي بدعم عثماني، ودُفن في مقبرة جامع السلطان محمد الفاتح.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-sq}{cite:wikidata-haxhi-zeka} ويحمل اسمه اليوم مطحنة حاجي زكا وجامعة بيجا العامة وساحة مركزية في المدينة.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}"
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     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Haxhi Zeka (20 December 1832 – 21 February 1902), born Haxhi Zekë Byberi at Shoshan in the Highlands of Gjakova, was an Albanian landowner of Peja who became one of the organizers of the League of Prizren and a member of its Central Committee at the founding assembly of 10 June 1878.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-sq} He commanded the League's forces at Gjakova in September 1878 against Mehmet Ali Pasha, fought in the defence of Plav and Gusinje against Montenegro in 1879–1880 and against Dervish Pasha's army in 1881, and led anti-Ottoman uprisings in 1884–85 and again, with Bajram Curri, in 1893 — after which he was held under arrest in Istanbul until 1896.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}\n\nIn January 1899 he presided over the Assembly of Peja, attended by some 450 Kosovo Albanian notables, which founded the League of Peja (Besa-Besë) and elected him chairman of its committee; he worked to extend the League across the Albanian territories until its suppression by the Ottoman army in 1900.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en} On 21 February 1902 he was assassinated in Peja by Adem Zajmi, acting with Ottoman support, and was buried in the cemetery of the Sultan Mehmed Fatih Mosque.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-sq}{cite:wikidata-haxhi-zeka} The Haxhi Zeka Mill, the public university of Peja and a central square of the city now bear his name.{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}"
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     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "حاجی زکا (20 دسمبر 1832 – 21 فروری 1902)، جو حاجی زکے بیبری کے نام سے شوشان (گیاکووا کے پہاڑی علاقے) میں پیدا ہوئے، پیجا کے ایک البانوی زمیندار تھے جو لیگ آف پریزرن کے منتظمین میں شامل ہوئے اور 10 جون 1878 کے اس کے بانی اجلاس میں اس کی مرکزی کمیٹی کے رکن منتخب ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-sq} انھوں نے ستمبر 1878 میں گیاکووا میں محمد علی پاشا کے خلاف لیگ کی افواج کی قیادت کی، 1879–1880 میں مونٹی نیگرو کے خلاف پلاو اور گوسینیے کے دفاع میں لڑے اور 1881 میں درویش پاشا کی فوج کا مقابلہ کیا، اور 1884–85 میں اور پھر بیرم کوری کے ساتھ 1893 میں عثمانی مخالف بغاوتوں کی قیادت کی — جس کے بعد وہ 1896 تک استنبول میں نظر بند رہے۔{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}\n\nجنوری 1899 میں انھوں نے پیجا کے اس اجلاس کی صدارت کی جس میں کوسوو کے تقریباً 450 البانوی عمائدین شریک ہوئے، جس نے لیگ آف پیجا (بیسا-بیسے) قائم کی اور انھیں اس کی کمیٹی کا چیئرمین منتخب کیا؛ انھوں نے 1900 میں عثمانی فوج کے ہاتھوں اس کے قمع تک لیگ کو البانوی علاقوں میں پھیلانے کی کوشش کی۔{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en} 21 فروری 1902 کو وہ پیجا میں آدم زائمی کے ہاتھوں، عثمانی حمایت سے، قتل کر دیے گئے اور سلطان محمد فاتح مسجد کے قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے۔{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-sq}{cite:wikidata-haxhi-zeka} آج حاجی زکا مل، پیجا کی پبلک یونیورسٹی اور شہر کا ایک مرکزی چوک ان کے نام سے موسوم ہیں۔{cite:wikipedia-haxhi-zeka-en}"
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