On April 26th, 1910, the villagers of Small Grika rose to defend Aziz Xheka, who was chased by the Ottoman army. The first spark that exploded in the village Gjurica, where he was fighting, and his villagers were turned into a great fire against the invaders. The nine mountains of Dibra rose against the Ottomans. Xheladin Manjani, one of the insurgents and warriors of those days, in his memoirs writes that “it was not point of protecting Aziz Xheka, but to prohibit the Turks
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8 May 1926, was concluded the agreement between the Albanian Government and the Serbian-Albanian Bank
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8 May 1937, King Zog I decreed the Law on Changing the Names of Some Cities, Villages, Wards, Rivers, etc