Halit Berzeshta
Albanian warlord

Halit Berzeshta

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Halit Bej Bërzeshta (1840 – 1909) was a famous Albanian warlord from the Librazhd region in central Albania.

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Bërzeshta was born in Bërzeshta, Vilayet of Monastir, Ottoman Albania (today Librazhd District, Albania) in 1840.


He was a member of the Secret Association of the Albanians of Monastir (Albanian: Organizata e Fshehtë e Shqiptareve të Manastirit), the Secret Committee for the Liberation of Albania, and one of the main Albanian activists in Monastir, where he joined forces with Bajo Topulli supporting guerrilla fighting against the Ottoman government. He died in 1909.