{"id":7849,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/zylyftar-veleshnja\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:50","slug":"zylyftar-veleshnja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/zylyftar-veleshnja\/","title":{"rendered":"Zylyftar Veleshnja"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Vlora, <\/span>Zylyf<\/span>t<\/span>ar<\/span> Veleshnja<\/span>, a par<\/span>t<\/span>icipan<\/span>t<\/span> in democra<\/span>t<\/span>ic movemen<\/span>t<\/span>s and <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>i<\/span>onal Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion An<\/span>t<\/span>i-Fascis<\/span>t<\/span> War, passed away. Born in <\/span>t<\/span>he village of <\/span>Veleshnje<\/span> in Skrapar in 1902, he <\/span>par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ed<\/span> in <\/span>t<\/span>he June Revolu<\/span>t<\/span>ion of 1924 and collabora<\/span>t<\/span>ed wi<\/span>t<\/span>h figures such as Asim <\/span>Vokshi<\/span> and Riza <\/span>Cerova<\/span> during <\/span>t<\/span>he an<\/span>t<\/span>i-monarchis<\/span>t<\/span> Uprising of Fier<\/span> in 1935. Following <\/span>t<\/span>he uprising’s <\/span>failure, he fled <\/span>t<\/span>o Greece. <\/span>Veleshnja<\/span> re<\/span>t<\/span>urned <\/span>t<\/span>o Albania in 1939 and <\/span>immedia<\/span>t<\/span>ely<\/span> joined <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion An<\/span>t<\/span>i-Fascis<\/span>t<\/span> Movemen<\/span>t<\/span>, <\/span>t<\/span>aking on various command roles including commander of <\/span>t<\/span>he par<\/span>t<\/span>isan de<\/span>t<\/span>achmen<\/span>t<\/span> of Skr<\/span>apar in 1942, depu<\/span>t<\/span>y commander of <\/span>t<\/span>he dis<\/span>t<\/span>ric<\/span>t<\/span> headquar<\/span>t<\/span>ers of Bera<\/span>t<\/span>, and commander of <\/span>t<\/span>he par<\/span>t<\/span>isan ba<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>alion “Riza <\/span>Cerova<\/span>” in 1943, as well as commander of <\/span>t<\/span>he par<\/span>t<\/span>isan group of Skrapar in 1944. He dis<\/span>t<\/span>inguished himself as a skilled warrior and leader and<\/span> was elec<\/span>t<\/span>ed a member of <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion An<\/span>t<\/span>i-Fascis<\/span>t<\/span> Council a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he <\/span>Përme<\/span>t<\/span> Congress in 1944. Af<\/span>t<\/span>er <\/span>t<\/span>he libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion, despi<\/span>t<\/span>e being a war invalid, <\/span>Veleshnja<\/span> held significan<\/span>t<\/span> posi<\/span>t<\/span>ions in <\/span>t<\/span>he army and local au<\/span>t<\/span>hori<\/span>t<\/span>ies in Skrapar and Bera<\/span>t<\/span>. He served <\/span>as vice-presiden<\/span>t<\/span> of <\/span>t<\/span>he Albanian People’s War Ve<\/span>t<\/span>erans Commi<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>ee and was elec<\/span>t<\/span>ed depu<\/span>t<\/span>y of <\/span>t<\/span>he People’s Assembly in all legisla<\/span>t<\/span>ures. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: <\/span>Zylyf<\/span>t<\/span>ar<\/span> Veleshnja<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>ex<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dic<\/span>t<\/span>ionary – Vol. 3<\/span><\/span>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kris<\/span>t<\/span>alina-KH”, <\/span>T<\/span>irana, 2009, page 2867-2868.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© h<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>ps:\/\/<\/span>t<\/span>elegraf.al\/dosier\/<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In Vlor\u00eb, Zylyftar Veleshnja, a participant in democratic movements and the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War, and a People’s Hero, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11440,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/11440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}