Kapedan Marka Gjoni (1861-1925) was the chieftain of the
Mirdita region and tribe in North
Albania. He was born in
Orosh. He was assigned as
Kaymakam of Mirdita by the
Ottoman Empire during the absence of
Prenk Bibë Doda who was interned in
Anatolia due to his participation in the Albanian
League of Prizren.
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Marka Gjoni is mostly remembered for the short-lived
Mirdita Republic of 1921.
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