Toma or Tomë Raspasani was an Albanian

Albanians

Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 Franciscan

Franciscan

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 monk and vicar

Vicar

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Life

Born in Skopska Crna Gora

Skopska Crna Gora

Skopska Crna Gora , formerly called Kara-dagh also called simply Crna Gora, is a mountain range on the border between Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia, between the cities of Kačanik and Skopje.The Monastery of St...

 in 1648 after studying in Italy he was appointed parish priest in Prizren

Prizren

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 in 1679. Later he served as the vicar of Pjetër Bogdani

Pjetër Bogdani

Pjetër Bogdani , known in Italian as Pietro Bogdano, is the most original writer of early literature in Albania. He is author of the Cuneus Prophetarum , 1685, the first prose work of substance written originally in Albanian Pjetër Bogdani (ca. 1630 - 1689), known in Italian as Pietro Bogdano, is...

, Archbishop of Skopje. Along with Pjetër Bogdani he played a leading role in the pro-Austrian movement in Kosovo during the Great Turkish War

Great Turkish War

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. Raspasani also collaborated with General Enea Silvio Piccolomini

General Enea Silvio Piccolomini

Enea Silvio Piccolomini was an Italian nobleman coming from a well known family from Siena in Italy, who served in the Habsburg army...

 during the war and after its final conquest took refuge to Buda

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