Black Society for Salvation

Dervishi explained that its seal contains a gun and dagger, with the name of the society on top, and number 18 and 78 (left and right), showing a connection with the League of Prizren period.

The society got reorganized and got its real structure in 1909 in Monastir (today's Bitola in North Macedonia), in the same building which hosted the Alphabet Congress.

The society established branches throughout the vilayets, in Korçë, Yannina, Gjirokastër, Vlorë, Filat, Delvinë, Përmet, Elbasan, Tirana, Ohër, Strugë, Dibër, Shkup, Shkodër, as well as in diaspora.

[7] The leaders of the society decided in that meeting to organize groups of armed rebels and to launch the uprising in the south in early June 1911.

[9] During 1911 the Ottoman representatives managed to deal with the leaders of Albanian rebels separately, because they were not united and lacked central control.

[10] The Ottoman Empire first managed to pacify the northern Albanian malësorë (highlanders) from Scutari Vilayet reaching a compromise during a meeting in Podgorica.

In order to resolve the problems in the south, the Ottoman representatives invited Albanian southern leaders to a meeting on August 18, 1911.

[13][14] They decided to send emissaries to malësorë in northern Albania, to organize the resistance in the whole region and to call for an Albanian national assembly.