Abdyl Frashëri

Abdyl Frashëri
Abdyl bey Frasheri Chairman of the Albanian Committee 1877
Born	(1839-06-01)1 June 1839 Frashër, Përmet District, Albania, then Ottoman Empire
Died	23 October 1892(1892-10-23) (aged 53) Constantinople, Turkey, then Ottoman Empire
Other names	Abdullah Hysni Frashëri
Organization	Central Committee for Defending Albanian Rights League of Prizren Assembly of Preveza Albanian Committee of Janina
Movement	Albanian Vilayet National Renaissance of Albania
Spouse(s)	Ballkëze Frashëri
Children	Feridun Frashëri, Halid Frashëri, Midhat Frashëri
Relatives	Naim Frashëri (Brother) Sami Frashëri (Brother) Mehdi Frashëri (Nephew) Ali Sami Yen (Nephew)

Abdyl Halid bej Frashëri or (Abdullah-Hysni Dume bej Frasheri) (Ottoman Turkish Fraşerli Abdül bey) was a prominent Hero of Albania. Frasheri was an Albanian Academic, Statesman, diplomat, and politician in the Ottoman Empire. He is one of the first Albanian political ideologues of the Albanian National Awakening being an initiator and prominent Leader of Albanian League of Prizren. He distinguished himself as a political personality from 1860's through early political assignments. He founded the Central Committee for Defending Albanian Rights in Constantinople and served as a deputy representative for the Yanya Vilayet in the Ottoman Parliament during the 1st Constitutional Era, 1876–1877.

Abdyl Frashëri was born in 1839 in the village of Frashër in the Vilayet of Janina to a distinguished Muslim Albanian family of Bektashi religious affiliations. Naim, alongside his brothers Naim, Abdyl and 5 other siblings were the children of Halit Bey (1797–1859) and their paternal family traditions held that they were descendants of timar holders that hailed from the Berat region before coming to live in Frashër. While their mother Emine Hanım (1814–1861) was descended from Imrahor Ilyas Bey, a distinguished 15th century Ottoman Albanian commander from the Korçë area. The surname Frashëri of the family is derived from the village of Frashër. The settlement was noted in the late Ottoman era for having a mixed Albanian and Vlach population. Thede Kahl and the Vlach community in Albania claim that the Frashëri family were of Vlach origin.

Being the eldest brother of Naim Frashëri and Sami Frashëri, Abdyl Frashëri spent his youth to age 18 in his home village and eventually moved to Ioannina where he lived for more than 20 years. His father, Halit Bey Frashëri, was a Tosk Albanian chieftain and commander of an irregular army, composed of Albanian militia contingents. His military service was to bring order to the unsettled territories of the Rumelia province, mainly inside Albanian-inhabited territories. He saw duty in areas such as Toskëria (Southern Albania), Gegëria (Northern Albania), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, Thessaly and Macedonia with the last two often on the verge of uprisings by Greek rebels. During these expeditions, Abdyl was part of his father's military contingent and served as a captain of the Albanian forces.