Kapedan Marka Gjoni (1861-1925) was the chieftain of the

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region and tribe in North

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. He was born in

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. He was assigned as ''

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'' of Mirdita by the

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during the absence of Prenk Bibë Doda who was interned in

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due to his participation in the Albanian

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. Marka Gjoni is mostly remembered for the short-lived Mirdita Republic of 1921.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gjoni, Marka 1861 births 1925 deaths 19th-century Albanian people 20th-century Albanian people Albanian Roman Catholics People from Mirditë