the command of Isa Boletini and advanced towards Üsküp (Skopje), the capital of the Vilayet of Kosovo, which they entered without encountering any resistance and took possession. As the national uprising spread throughout Kosovo and most of the north, troops were sent against the rebels, who retired to the mountains but continued to protest against the government, and in the whole region between Ipek and Mitrovica they plundered military depots, opened prisons and collected taxes from the inhabitants for the Albanian chiefs. On August 18, the moderate faction led by Prishtina managed to convince Seferi and the other leaders Isa Boletini, Bajram Curri and Riza Bey Gjakova of the conservative group to accept the agreement with the Ottomans for Albanian sociopolitical and cultural rights. Balkan Wars In the First Balkan war Seferi recruited 6,000 men from Karadak and attacked Serbian frontier posts. They were armed with Martinis and Serbian rapid-fire guns that had been supplied by Serbia during the 1909 Albanian Uprising. The Albanians did this after realising that Albanian-inhabited regions would possibly be divided between Serbia and Greece; the notion of using Serbian weapons and money against Serbia enraged the army. Due to his actions against the Serbian Army, 29 villages in Karadak were burned and Hundreds of Albanians were killed. In fact the entire Albanian population of the villages Kabash, Tërpezë, Lubisht and Gjylekar were annihilated by the Serbian Army. World War I During the First World War, Idriz Seferi led a Armed Uprising in Karadak, which was occupied by Bulgaria. Legacy He was posthumously awarded the Hero of Kosovo-award by the Republic of Kosovo. There is a bust of him in Kaçanik. References Sources 1847 births 1927 deaths 19th-century Albanian military personnel 20th-century Albanian military personnel 19th-century Ottoman military personnel 20th-century Ottoman military personnel Activists of the Albanian National Awakening Kosovo Albanian soldiers Rebels from the Ottoman Empire Albanians from the Ottoman Empire Ottoman period in the history of Kosovo People from Preševo Albanians in Serbia