Biography
Ali Pasha of Gucia was born in 1828 in Gusinje to Hasan Shabanagaj. He finished military school in Istanbul. Ali Pasha of Gucia was a member of the League of Prizren and lead the forces of the League against the Ottoman empire after the Congress of Berlin, during which Albanian-inhabited areas in modern Montenegro were ceded to Montenegro. In the early phases of the attack against Mehmed Ali Pasha he commanded the volunteer troops that blocked the routes from Djakova to the Ottoman-Montenegrin border. He was also the leader of the Albanian troops of the League of Prizren against thePrincipality of Montenegro at the battle of Nokshiq (modern Novšiće), near Gruda.
After collisions which took place with Ottoman troops, Ali Pasha of Gucia was arrested. He was released after the Sultan gave general amnesty and became mutesarif (governor of sandjak) of Peja. He was assassinated by agents of the Ottoman government in the Rugova Canyon in 1885.
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