Contribution to Elucidation the Figure of Shuaib-Pasha Sipahi and His Part in Prizren’s League

Abstract

San Stefano Peace Treaty caused the great wave of discontent at the territories inhabited with Albanian people. Albanian patriotic forces sent to the Porte the telegrams of protest against the renunciation of these territories. The same telegrams were also sent by the inhabitance of Prizren and other cities in Kosovo. The negotiations between the outstanding pers'ons from Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, South Serbia, Sanjak and Montenegro had started back in April 1878. A seria of meetings had been organized at which it had been decided to form the organization which would stand against the decisions of Viennese Congress. Inaugural assembly at which Prizren's League got its organizing form was held in Prizren. Apart from the main committee it was formed also the branch of Prizren's League whose president was Haji Imer-efendi Prizreni. Later on this duty was taken over by Shuaib Sipahi.

Shuaib Sipahi as a prominent figure with important part in Prizren's League was first mentioned by Turkish historian Sulayman Kulce and then by Krsto Fraseri and the others, but very little was told about him as the person, as the man. On the basis of the inscription engraved at the fountain in Davud Peroli's house in Prizren, then on the basis of the conversation with Fejzulah Sipahi's grandchildren and the few telegrams preserved in the European and Turkish Archives, the author reached some new data elucidating the figure of Shuaib-pasha Sipahi. He gives his genealogy branch, presents him as one of the main officials in Prizren's League, right behind Imer Prizreni, and also states that he died in Turkish city named Adana.