Hasan Prishtina
| Hasan Prishtina | |
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| 7th Prime Minister of Albania | |
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In office 7 December 1921 – 12 December 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Qazim Koculi |
| Succeeded by | Idhomene Kosturi |
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| Born | 27 September 1873 Poljance, Ottoman Empire (today Kosovo) |
| Died | 14 August 1933 (aged 59) Thessaloniki, Greece |
| Resting place | Kukës, Albanian Kingdom |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer |
| Religion | Islam |
Hasan Prishtina (Turkish: Priştineli Hasan) originally known as Hasan Berisha (September 27, 1873–August 14, 1933), was an Albanian politician, who served as 8th Prime Minister of Albania in December 1921.
According to Ivo Banac and Miranda Vickers, Hasan was a member of the Šišković clan of Vučitrn, whom Serbs held as traitors. Hasan was born in 1873 in Poljance in the Drenica region, his father Ahmed Berisha having moved there from the Vučitrn kaza in 1871. After finishing the French gymnasium in Thessaloniki, he studied politics and law in Istanbul. He was originally known as "Hasan Berisha".
He initially supported the Young Turks and was elected to the Ottoman parliament in 1908. He changed his last name into Prishtina in 1908, when he was elected as the Pristina delegate in the Ottoman parliament in Istanbul during the Second Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire. However, Prishtina lost his position in 1912 as did all the Albanian deputies.
After the Ottoman Government did not keep their promises for more rights and independence to the Albania nation, Hasan Prishtina and several other prominent Albanian intellectuals started organizing the Albanian National Movement. He together with Isa Boletini and Bajram Curri took the responsibility to start the Albanian National Movement in Kosovo.
Prishtina took an active part in the 1912 uprising in Kosovo and formulated the autonomy demands that were submitted to the Turkish government in August 1912, the so-called fourteen points of Hasan Prishtina.
Until August 1912, Prishtina led the Albanian rebels to gain control over the whole Kosovo vilayet (including Novi Pazar, Sjenica, Priština and even Skopje), part of Scutari Vilayet (including Elbasan, Përmet, Leskovik and Konitsa in Janina Vilayet and Debar in Monastir Vilayet.
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