Some of the Prizren League’s delegates support…
July 1878 CE
Some of the Prizren League’s delegates support the Ottoman position and advocate emphasizing Muslim solidarity and the defense of Muslim lands, including Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Other representatives, under Frasheri's leadership, focus on working toward Albanian autonomy and creating a sense of Albanian identity that will cut across religious and tribal lines.
Because conservative Muslims constitute a majority of the representatives, the Prizren League supports maintenance of Ottoman suzerainty.
In July 1878, the league sends a memorandum to the Great Powers at the Congress of Berlin, which had been called to settle the unresolved problems of Turkish War.
The league demands that all Albanians be united in a single Ottoman province, which is to be governed from Bitola by a Turkish governor, who is to be advised by an Albanian committee elected by universal suffrage.
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