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Omaraj
Omaraj (also known as Omarë, sr, Омара) is a Human settlement, settlement in the former Gruemirë municipality in Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Malësi e Madhe. Demographics During the early 2010s, the linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli, seeking to corroborate villages cited in past literature as being Slavic-speaking, carried out fieldwork in settlements of the area. Omaraj in the Shkodër area is one of a number of villages with a Slavophone population that speaks a Montenegrin dialect. p. 9. "Am östlichen Ufer des Shkodrasees gibt es heute auf dem Gebiet von Vraka vier Dörfer, in denen ein Teil der Bewohner eine montenegrinische Mundart spricht. Es handelt sich dabei um die Ortschaften Boriçi i Madh (Borić Veli), Boriçi i Vogël (Borić Mali/Borić Stari/Borić Vezirov), Gril (Grilj) und Omaraj (Omara), die verwaltungstechnisch Teil der Gemeinde Gruemira in der Region Malësia e Madhe s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gruemirë
Gruemirë is a former municipality in the Shkodër County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Malësi e Madhe. The population at the 2011 census was 8,890. Name It is named after the settlement of Gruemirë which in turn takes its name from the legend of "Good women" which traditionally is translated good-mirë: women-grua (grue from dialect) and had its home territory in Gruemira. Gruemira is first mentioned in the cadaster of Venetian Shkodra in 1416. Traditionally, in Albanological research it has been seen as compound of ''grua'' (woman) and ''mirë'' (good). Another theory based in the rendering of the toponym in the defter of Scutari in 1485 as ''Kuruemira'' proposes an etymology as a compound of ''krua'' (well) + ''mirë'' (good). The people of the fis and the village of Gruemirë are called ''Gruemiras''. Legend The legend of "Good women"—Once upon a time on a small cottage was only one well far aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |