Notable people

• Safet Butka
  Safet Butka
  Safet Butka was an Albanian professor, politician and nationalist. Son of famous patriot Sali Butka, he organized the student demonstrations in April 1939 during the Italian invasion and was interned in Ventotene. Upon his return he organized antifascist movements in his native region and was one...
  
  , World War II freedom fighter
• Sali Butka
  Sali Butka
  Sali Butka was an Albanian nationalist figure, kachak, poet, and one of the delegates of the city of Korçë to the Albanian National Congress of Lushnjë.Butka was born in village Butkë of Kolonjë District...
  
  , 19th and early 20th century freedom fighter
• Qemal Butka
  Qemal Butka
  Qemal Butka was an Albanian architect, painter, politician, and postage stamps engraver. He was mayor of Tirana from 1935-1936 but departed from Albania in 1939 to live in Turkey and the United States...
  
  , mayor of Tirana