Prenk Pervizi
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Prenk Pervizi albanian general |
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General Prenk Pervizi
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May 4, 1897 Skuraj, Vilayet of Scutari, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | September 6, 1977 (aged 80) Jolimont, Belgium |
| Saint Pierre La Haine | Saint Pierre La Haine |
| Allegiance | Principality of Albania Albanian Kingdom: -1928-39 -1939-43 -1943-44 |
| Service/branch | mitary |
| Years of service | 26 |
| Rank | major general |
| Unit | infantry |
| Commands held | major general |
| Battles/wars |
Albanian Revolt of 1922 June Revolution Italo-Greek War |
Prenk Pervizi (1897–1977) was an Albanian military figure, General of the Albanian army, who also served as Minister of Defence for a short period during World War II. Pervizi attended the Military Academy in Vienna, Austria, from 1914–1918, and later in Torino, 1930–1933. As a military figure, he was a protagonist in the foreground of Albanian history in the years between 1918–1944. Friend and right-hand man of King Zog, he remained loyal from the beginning to the end to him and the Albanian Kingdom, 1928-1939. During World War II he was involved in military operations. Recruited by the Italians and sent to the first line of combat, he came into conflict with them, withdrawing the Albanian troops from the Greco-Italian War. He also opposed the German SS troops recruitment process in Albania. Bitter opponent of the communists, after failed attempts to engage some serious support from the British emissaries, he was forced to exile, first in Greece and later in Belgium as a political refugee. He spent the rest of his life in Belgium, where he died at age 80, on September 6, 1977.
The Pervizi family from Skuraj village in present-day Milot, Kurbin were a notable Catholic lineage from north of Albania. The name comes from its founder Pervizi, the Great of Skuraj of Kurbini, who lived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It was said that he had strongly opposed the Ottoman invasion and had not agreed to bow to their tempting offers, for which he was killed by the Turks. It was five centuries before the name of Pervizi returned to prominence in the history of Albania. This happened in the period of the National Awakening, when Gjin Pjeter Mark Pervizi from Skuraj distinguished himself as head of the popular uprising of Kurbini-Kruja (1912) against the Turkish domination conducted successfully and raising of the national flag in Milot regional center, on the same day of the Albanian Declaration of Independence 28 November 1912 in Vlore, by patriots led by Ismail Qemali.
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