Several young men from the village fought in the mountains of Albania in the 1940 war as they did in the Asia Minor catastrophe. A resident of the village, 13 years old at the time, vividly described the day of 28 October 1940: "That day the village was buzzing. The doors and windows were opening and closing banging. People were running in the streets, in the fields, in the pastures, the bell was ringing to alert the villagers about the bad news of the war. There was a general mobilization. They took the classes, recruited horses, cows, sheep, goats for the army, for the front."