Bajo Topulli

Who was Bajo Topulli?

Bajo Topulli was an Albanian nationalist figure of the Albanian National Awakening. While he was a director in the Ottoman Secondary school in Monastir he founded in November 1905 the Secret Committee for the Liberation of Albania in Monastir, and in March 1906 he founded in the Bektashi tekke of Melçan, a village near Korçë, an armed guerilla band to fight against the Ottoman rule. Bajo Topulli was the older brother of Çerçiz Topulli.

On September 22, 1906 Bajo Topulli's band killed the Greek Orthodox bishop of Görice, Photios, who was said to be responsible for the death of Papa Kristo Negovani.