Peter Perlatai

Earlier the fort had been under the command of Skanderbeg.[2] Perlatai was defended by 1,850 men from Dibra. Skanderbeg sent 5000 an 4000 riders to aid Perlati. The Sultan offered to let them go if they surrendered to which Perlati refused. On May 17, Murad II began bombarding the fortress with two large guns and ordered troops under the command of Ibrahim Pasha. Perlatis men however defended the attacks and his men, scattered on the fortress walls, threw big stones at the besiegers who suffered many losses. On June 21, Murad II ordered a second storm on the fortress which Perlati once again managed to halt. Perlati suffered 220 dead and more than 100 wounded. At the beginning of July, Perlatis men surrendered and Marlin Barleti writes that the reason was that Murad II had persuaded a villager to throw a dead dog in the well contaminating the water which Perlatis men refused to drink. The sultan offered them free departure in return.[3] Perlati was defeated by the Sultan.[4]

But Murad, who could not find food in this hostile region, had to give up and return to Edirne immediately, even if he had planned to move to the inner regions. Only a small garrison was left in the seized castle securing the border with Eastern Albania. Vladan Georgevic writes in 1913, with reference to Johann Georg Von Hahn,[5] of a Sworn Virgin and daughter of Peter Perlataj, Mara of Perlataj, who had been betrothed as a child to a Muslim prince from Lurja. She belonged to the Preza Doi family and had lost her parents as a child.[6] When Maria was seventeen years old and the prince wanted her, she stepped down from the council of her place and declared that the Turk was forcing her to accept his faith. She demanded her father's arms from her uncle and declared herself as a man in the name of her father until her death.[7]