# Orosh

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'''Orosh''' (or {{Langx|sq|Oroshi}}) is a small [village](/source/village) in [Mirditë](/source/Mirdit%C3%AB) within the county of [Lezhë](/source/Lezh%C3%AB_County) in the northwest of the [Republic of Albania](/source/Republic_of_Albania).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |title=Law nr. 115/2014 |language=sq |pages=6373–6374 |access-date=25 February 2022 |archive-date=25 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220225080313/https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Geographically, it is located inside the mountainous region of northern Albania in the [Valley of Fan](/source/Fan_(river)).

The seat of the former municipality was the town of [Reps](/source/Reps). The former [Orosh Abbey](/source/Orosh_Abbey) was located in the municipality. [Terenzio Tocci](/source/Terenzio_Tocci) gathered the [Mirdita](/source/Mirdita_(tribe)) chieftains on April 26, 1911, in Orosh, proclaimed the independence of Albania, raised the [flag of Albania](/source/flag_of_Albania) and established the provisional government.<ref>{{Citation |last= Elsie |first= Robert |authorlink= Robert Elsie |title= Historical dictionary of Albania |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=haFlGXIg8uoC&q=%22independence+of+Albania%22&pg=PA444 |year= 2004 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location= Lanham, Md. |isbn= 978-0-8108-4872-6 |oclc= 52347600 |page= 444 |quote= Tocci Torenzio....On 26 April 1911 he gathered the chieftains of Mirdita near Orosh and proclaimed independence of Albania, hoisting the Albanian flag for the first time since the death of Skanderbeg }}</ref><ref name="Skendi412440">{{cite book|last=Skendi|first=Stavro|title=The Albanian national awakening|year=1967|location=Princeton|publisher=Princeton University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8QPWCgAAQBAJ&q=Ghims&pg=PR15|isbn=9781400847761|pages=412, 440}}</ref><ref name="Gawrych186">{{cite book|last=Gawrych|first=George|title=The crescent and the eagle: Ottoman rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874–1913|year=2006|location=London|publisher=IB Tauris|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wPOtzk-unJgC&q=Terenzio+Tocci|isbn=9781845112875|pages=186}}</ref>

<gallery mode=packed>
File:Cikut.jpg|Malet e Shenjtit close to Orosh
File:Orosh_Church,_Mirditë,_Albania_2018-04_01.jpg|The new church of Orosh
File:Steinmetz Orosh.jpg|The church of Orosh in 1903
</gallery>

== Notable people ==
*[Prenk Bibë Doda](/source/Prenk_Bib%C3%AB_Doda) (1860–1919), member of the [Young Turks](/source/Young_Turks), prince of Mirdita and politician
*[Marka Gjoni](/source/Marka_Gjoni) (1861–1925), chieftain of the Mirdita region
*[Gjon Markagjoni](/source/Gjon_Markagjoni) (1888–1966), [Catholic](/source/Catholicism_in_Albania) [clan](/source/clan) chieftain
*[Bib Dod Pasha](/source/Bib_Dod_Pasha) (1820–1868), ruler of the Mirdita region

== References ==
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