The "Battles of Mazhik" took place, the first direct confrontation of the Kosovo Liberation Army with the Serbian army and the longest war of the Kosovo Liberation Army in 1998.
Kolë Mirdita, a fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army, martyr, was killed by a grenade on the Kosovo-Albania border, at the place called Rrasa e Zogut.
Muzafer Asqeriu, participant in the communist movement and in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, was killed in the war with the Italian forces.
