Demir Vlonjati born Demir Mystehaku and also known as Demir Aga Vlonjakasi was an Albanian

Albanians

Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 folk

Folk music

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 singer, composer and poet.

Demir Mystehaku was born in Matogjin

Matogjin

-Notable people :Matogjin is the birthplace of Demir Vlonjati and Qazim Ademi, famous singers and composers of the Albanian polyphonic music....

, southern Albania

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 around 1780 and died there in 1845. He became a famous singer and created a new genre of Albanian polyphonic music named demirçe after him. This genre influenced the works of another famous composer from the same region, Qazim Ademi

Qazim Ademi

Qazim Ademi was a famous Albanian singer and composer of Albanian polyphonic music.Ademi was born in 1876 in Matogjin, southern Albania and died there in 1939. Qazim Ademi's songs are considered successors of the demirçe genre of Albanian polyphonic music named after Demir Ago Mystehaku–Vlonjati ,...

. In 1845 he wrote an octosyllabic poem in nineteen quatrain

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s condemning a massacre in Vlorë

Vlorë

Vlorë is one of the biggest towns and the second largest port city of Albania, after Durrës, with a population of about 94,000 . It is the city where the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912...

 region committed by Ottoman Turkish

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 forces that year and the negative effects of the Tanzimat

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on Albania.

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