Mehmet Pashë Deralla Explained

Mehmet Derralla
Honorific-Suffix:Pasha
Nationality: Albanian
Order:General Staff of the Ottoman
Office:Gendarmerie
Term Start:?
Term End:1878
Order2:Provisional Government of Albania
Office2:Minister of War
Term Start2:1912
Term End2:1914
Birth Date:1843
Birth Place:Gradec, Tetovo, Ottoman Empire (modern day North Macedonia)
Death Date:1918 (aged 75)
Death Place:Podgorica, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern day Montenegro)
Restingplace:Arabati Baba Teḱe, Tetovo
Allegiance:League of Prizren
League of Peja
Provisional Government of Albania
Battles:Albanian Revolt of 1912
Albania during the Balkan Wars
Awards:Order of Freedom (Kosovo) [1]
Signature:Mehmet Deralla (nënshkrim).svg
Parents:Hasan Deralla (father)
Children:Halim bey Deralla (Son)
Menyr Deralla (Son)
Gajur Deralla (Son)
Hysen Deralla (Son)
Qamile (Daughter)
Fatime (Daughter)
Samushe (Daughter)
Zyra (Daughter)

Mehmet Pashë Derralla was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence.[2] Mehmet Pashë Derralla was the Minister of War in the Provisional Government of Albania.

He was born in Gradec, Kalkandelen (present day Tetovo), Ottoman Empire (present-day Republic of Macedonia); and is the son of Hasan Deralla.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Awarded Honours.
  2. "History of Albanian People" Albanian Academy of Science.ISBN 99927-1-623-1