League of Prizren

The League of Prizrenit was founded on June 10, 1878, in Prizren.

The most important act of the League of Prizren was the establishment of an organization with a political and military character, with a single leadership center and branches in all provinces. It would undertake the task of protecting the rights of the Albanian Nation.

The League of Prizren failed to raise a Regular Army, therefore the volunteer forces assumed the characteristics of regular fighting forces with a number of 25,000 troops, according to the principle of one man per house. The mobilization included all men from 15 to 70 years old.

In the military ordinance of the League of Prizren, it was stipulated that the entire Armed Force would be divided into five corps.

Plans were made to organize the Kosovo Corps with 70,000 fighters and the Shkodra Corps with 60,000, with volunteers from Tirana, Elbasan, Ohrid, Dibra and Mati.

The corps was organized into Infantry Brigades, the brigades into regiments, and each regiment had four Infantry Battalions. A battalion consisted of four Infantry Platoons and one Cavalry Platoon. The unified Army was to have 380 Battalions in the North and 100 Battalions in the South of Albania. In addition, the Logistics Groups was created, consisting of medical structures, transport and storage squads.

Even though the High Porte suppressed the League of Prizren, it laid the foundations for the creation of the Independent Albanian State, which became concrete three decades later.

During its existence, the League of Prizren conducted a series of important battles against Montenegro and the High Porte, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin.