Shaban Kastrati better known as Shaban Polluzha was an Albanian

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 military leader in Kosovo

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He was the son of Mustafëe Rexhep Kastrati from the village Polluzhë, Drenica

Drenica

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 region. During World War I

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 he fought with the Entente

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against Bulgaria

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 and Austria

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. Later he fought against Yugoslavia

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. In 1921 he was elected a deputy of Drenica. In 1941 he was interned by the Italian army and when he was released he fought against them.

In World War II he joined the partisan forces and fought to expel the Germans from Kosovo. In 1944 he refused to lead his men to the north to pursue the retreating Germans, because Serbian chetnik groups were attacking the Albanian population in Kosovo.

Sources

• Kosovo: what everyone needs to know, Tim Judah, p. 49
• Historical dictionary of Kosova, Robert Elsie, p. 140