Šaban Poluža
Shaban Mustafë Kastrati (1871 – 21 February 1945), known as Shaban Polluzha, was a Kosovo Albanians, Kosovo Albanian military leader of Drenica Brigade which was formed in December 1944 to support the 6th Albanian communist Brigade during World War II. He served in the Royal Albanian gendarmerie and as a commander of the ''Vulnetari'' militia. He was briefly a member of the Balli Kombëtar. Early life Shaban was born in :sq:Polluzha (Drenas), Polluzha, in the Drenica region (now central Kosovo). He came from a middle-class family and he was not educated, but as a young man he became involved in political life, which was imposed on him by the circumstances and injustices of the occupying regimes. World War I and II He fought against the Bulgarians and Austrians during the First World War, afterwards he fought for the Kachaks, Kaçak movement against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In 1924 he was part of a unit led by Azem Galica, and he covered their retreat to Albanian territory aft ...
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