Rexhep Mitrovica
| Rexhep Mitrovica | |
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| 20th Prime Minister of Albania | |
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In office November 4, 1943 – July 18, 1944 |
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| Preceded by | Mehdi Frashëri |
| Succeeded by | Fiqri Dine |
| Minister of Education | |
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In office 1921–1923 |
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| Born | 1887 Mitroviça, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
| Died | 21 May 1967 (aged 80) Istanbul, Turkey |
| Political party | Balli Kombëtar |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Teacher |
| Religion | Islam |
| Awards | Order of Freedom (Kosovo) |
Rexhep Mitrovica (1887 – 21 May 1967) was an Axis collaborator, Prime Minister of Albania's government under Nazi Germany. A staunch nationalist, he was elected head of the Second League of Prizren.
Rexhep was born to a wealthy land-owning family from Mitroviça, (currently Mitrovicë, Kosovo), in the Ottoman Empire. He studied in Usküb and Istanbul. He was one of the leaders of the Kosovo uprising of 1912, together with Isa Boletini and Hasan Prishtina. Also in 1912, he took part in the declaration of Albanian independence as the representative of Peja. From 1921 to 1923, he served as Albanian minister of education.
By 1921, Kosovo was within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes against the will of the Albanian population. Albanian resistance had been largely crushed in Drenica in November 1920. The Serbian government's Decree on the Colonization of the New Southern Lands was now facilitating the takeover by Serb colonists of large Ottoman estates and of land seized from Albanian rebels. It is within this context that Rexhep Mitrovica, along with Bedri Pejani, tried to seek help from the western powers.
After the fall of the government of Fan Noli in December 1924, he took part in a failed plot to overthrow Ahmet Zogu, spent a couple of years in exile in Austria and France, but was amnestied with seventy other figures on 21 September 1927.
He returned to Albania after the Italian invasion and joined the Balli Kombëtar resistance movement in 1942. He spent much of the Italian period in prison in Porto Romano near Durrës.
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