page_title: Oso Kuka
hierarchical_section_title: Oso Kuka
caption_attribution_description: English: Oso Kuka (c. 1820-1862) was an Ottoman-Albanian border guard, and nationalist symbol.
context_page_description: Osman Bejtullah agë Kuka also known as Oso Kuka was a border guard in the Ottoman-Montenegrin border. Surrounded by Montenegrin soldiers in a tower on the island of Vranjina, he blew it up killing himself and many of the Montenegrin soldiers. In the following decades, he became a rallying figure of the Albanian independence movement and a much-celebrated character of important works in Albanian literature.
context_section_description: Osman Bejtullah agë Kuka also known as Oso Kuka (c. 1812/1820–1862) was a border guard in the Ottoman-Montenegrin border. Surrounded by Montenegrin soldiers in a tower on the island of Vranjina, he blew it up killing himself and many of the Montenegrin soldiers. In the following decades, he became a rallying figure of the Albanian independence movement and a much-celebrated character of important works in Albanian literature.
caption: Drawing of Oso Kuka, from the June 1901 issue of the Albania newspaper of Faik Konitza
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