Sali Butka
Male, Deceased Person
1852 – 1938
Who was Sali Butka?
Sali Butka was an Albanian nationalist figure, kachak, poet, and one of the delegates of the city of Korçë to the Albanian National Congress of Lushnjë.
Butka was born in village Butkë of Kolonjë District. He became the commander of various Albanian irregular bands and initiated armed guerilla operations in 1906 in regions of modern southern Albania, which were under Ottoman control that time. His guerilla activities continued the next years and especially in the Balkan Wars and World War I. During the Balkan Campaign of World War I, several bands of Albanian Tosks and Ghegs supported with their activity the armed operations of the Central Powers in the region. Butka's band invaded in 1916 the town of Moscopole, once a prosperous metropolis in 18th century, and lead to its destruction.
In 1920 he became one of the delegates of the city of Korçë to the Congress of Lushnjë.
Sali Butka during his guerilla campaigns composed revolutionary poems that combined of naturalistic texts with nationalistic themes in a form of folk poetry.
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