In 1831, Turkey abolished the timar system altogether. It was in Kosovo that discontent, unrest and revolt coagulated into the League of Prizren in 1878. But it wrong to attribute to it the birth of the delirium of a Great Albania. The League sought an administrative solution - not a political one. They were more focussed on benign, less threatening things like culture, art, literature and education.
History moves in quirkily agonizing twists and turns.
The Albanian language was indeed suffused by nationalism, immersed in dreams and aspirations unfulfilled. Its reawakening signalled the reawakening of Albanianism. In 1912 Turkey granted the Albanians their wishes only to face the Greek, Serb and Montenegrin armies, which conquered Albania and divided it among them. This trauma of division is a recurring trauma in the Albanian psyche. How ironic that the only people who can empathize with them are the Macedonians who share the same fear of being quartered.