The Montenegrin bandit raid on the Albanian village of Spizza (Spic) in 1836

The Montenegrin bandit raid on the Albanian village of Spizza (Spic) in 1836

In 1836, a Venetian official from Zara reported that a group of Montenegrin bandits raided the Albanian (turkish) village of Spizza, and burned 5-6 houses, burning 2 women alive, and killing 3 Turks (Albanians) who were taken to Cetinje.

Cited:

“At the easternmost point of our border with Turkish Albania, a band of some twenty-odd Montenegrins recently raided a Turkish village near Spizza by night and reduced five or six houses to ashes; in the process, two women burned to death, and three Turks were killed and taken to Cetinje. The Vizier of Scutari is said to have resolved to exact revenge for this.

However, according to reports received from Scutari itself, he has merely fitted out a single schooner on the lake there and transported 200 troops by water to Spuž and Žabljak to garrison these two fortified locations; thus, his measures appear for the time being to be limited to preventing similar raids by Montenegro.

Please accept, Your Excellency, the expression of my most distinguished regard and boundless veneration, with which I have the honor to remain, Your Excellency’s most humble servant—In the absence of His Excellency the Provincial Governor—Zara, 27 November 1836—Hyandmandber.”

Source

Гласник Земаљског музеја у Босни и Херцеговини. Volum 22. 1911. Zemaljski muzej u Bosni i Hercegovini, Земаљски музеј у Босни и Херцеговини. Zemaljska štamparija.

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