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Mihal Grameno was born in [[Korçë]]<ref name="Blumi21">{{harvnb|Blumi|2011|p=21.}}</ref> to an [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox]] [[Albanians|Albanian]] merchant family. He studied at the local secondary school before emigrating to [[Romania]] in 1885. It was in [[Bucharest]] where he got involved in the [[Albanian National Awakening]] where the movement soon collapsed due to financial reasons in the extended family who were dependent on money.
In 1907, he joined the newly formed [[Çerçiz Topulli]]'s [[kachak]] band, an early guerrilla unit fighting against Ottoman troops ( mostly Albanian) and policies of Sultan [[Abdul Hamid II]] in [[Albania]].{{sfn|Skendi|1967|pp=207, 210-211, 421}} They were considered the ''Apostles of Albanianism'' and would go from village to village to discuss the Albanian predicament.
Ottoman officials sent out military patrols to capture the bandits. The activity of the band consisted of only one battle in two years, when the 5 people band was surrounded by 150 Ottoman units in Mashkullore. Four out of five escaped the encirclement by defeating Ottoman troops. Other bands of this nature, not having a journalist in their company, such as Grameno have remained unsung heroes.
During the [[Young Turk Revolution]] (1908), the Albanian Adjuntant Major [[Ahmed Niyazi Bey]] met with guerilla leaders Topulli and Grameno on 23 July in [[Resen, North Macedonia|Resne]] (modern Resen) where he expressed his gratitude and viewed the declaration of the CUP constitution as advantageous for the Albanian nation.<ref name="Skendi341">{{harvnb|Skendi|1967|p=341.}}</ref> Grameno alongside Topulli and Niyazi appeared in photographs taken by the [[Manakis brothers]] during the revolution.<ref name="Blumi46">{{cite book|last=Blumi|first=Isa|title=Reinstating the Ottomans, Alternative Balkan Modernities: 1800–1912|year=2011|location=New York|publisher=Palgrave MacMillan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NatgAQAAQBAJ&q=Grameno|isbn=9780230119086|pages=4, 6}}</ref>
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