Sinan Maxhera was born in 1863 in the village of
Mađare, in present-day
Preševo, located in the
Karadak region. At that time, the village belonged to the Karadak
nahiya of the
kaza of Gjilan. He first studied under the local imam in his village before continuing his education at the Isa Beg
Madrasa in
Skopje. He enlisted as a volunteer soldier in the
Greco-Turkish War of 1897, where he was wounded in battle. After quelling the uprising, the Ottoman army captured and arrested Maxhera. He and six other rebels were sentenced to death by hanging by an Ottoman court. Maxhera was hanged in
Kaçanik on July 7, 1910; however, according to historian Shaban Braha, he was executed in
Kukës (in modern-day Albania). == Folklore ==