Bajram Curri

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A town in northeastern Albania, located within the Valbona valley just west of the river Valbona on the edge of the Albanian Alps.
• municipal unit of the municipality of municipality, Tropojë in the county of county, Kukës Albania (country).

Related

Similar words

• Kolgecaj

Origin

• Borrowed from Albanian Bajram Curri. Ultimately named after Bajram Curri, a freedom fighter who struggled for Albanian independence and ethnic Albanians.
• Curri was famously sacrificed by his friends in 1925 while hiding in a cave near the village of Dragobi, in the Valbonë valley northwest of the town, to avoid being captured by the surrounding Zogist forces, which had been pursuing him for upwards of three years. In 1952, the town was renamed from Kolgecaj to Bajram Curri.