League of Peja

The League of Peja (Albanian Lidhja e Pejës ) was an association ( Kosovo ) Albanian nationalist intellectuals, politicians, and Islamic cleric in Peja in the west of Kosovo. It took place in January, 1889 and was accompanied by over 400 delegates. The chair of the League had Haxhi Mulla Zeka.

The League of Peja was a resistance movement and autonomy of the Albanian population of the Ottoman Empire. The two main currents of the League were the moderate and the radical followers. The former demanded above all cultural reforms of the Sublime Porte; The latter sat on the implementation of policy reforms and thus would open within the realm the way for a genuine autonomy of the Albanian settlements. However, the main aim of the meeting was to defend the Muslim faith.

The League was founded after it had arrived in Kosovo in 1885 to numerous revolts, which were directed against the taxes imposed and the registration of the population. It saw itself as the successor to the League of Prizren, which had been founded in 1878 and in 1881 forcibly dissolved by the Ottoman government.