Bajram Balota

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Bajram Balota was an Albanian guerrilla leader{{Cite book|last1=Furat|first1=Ayşe Zişan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-qQwBwAAQBAJ&q=bajram+balota&pg=PA102|title=Balkans and Islam: Encounter, Transformation, Discontinuity, Continuity|last2=Er|first2=Hamit|date=2012-11-15|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-4283-9|language=en}} from Balotići, Rožaje. He was called to settle many conflicts and function as a Muslihun since he was a well-known member of the local Muslim community (judicial mediator).{{Cite web|title=almanah21-22|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/76781144/almanah21-22|access-date=2021-06-04|website=Scribd|language=en}} During World War I, he headed a force of irregulars in the territory held by Austria-Hungary in Montenegro around Berane and Rožaje. He and his allies persecuted and killed Orthodox Montenegrins. His movement was dissolved following a defeat by Austro-Hungarian soldiers on 18 June.

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