People's Socialist Republic of Albania (1944-1992).

Overview

The bajrak was a territorial unit of the Ottoman Empire, consisting of a group of villages, from which military recruitment was organized - a "territorialized military organization." The bajrak was composed of one or more clans. Several smaller clans could inhabit a single bajrak while larger clans occupied several bajrak; usually a bajraktar ("standard-bearer")

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