Sinë ( sq-definite, Sina), is a small village in the

Dibër County Dibër County (; sq, Qarku i Dibrës) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania, spanning a surface area of with the capital in Peshkopi. The county borders on the counties of Durrës, Elbasan, Kukës, Lezhë, Tirana and the ...

, in

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

. After the 2015 local government reforms, it became part of the municipality Dibër.

History

Pal Kastrioti (fl. 1383—1407) was given village of Sina (''Signa'') as a fief by Zetan lord

Balša II Balša Balšić ( sr-cyr, Балша Балшић); or Balsha II ( sq, Balsha II) died September 18, 1385), known in historiography as Balša II, was the Lord of Lower Zeta from 1378 to 1385. He managed to expand his borders towards the south; def ...

. Pal's son,

Konstantin The first name Konstantin () is a derivation from the Latin name ''Constantinus'' ( Constantine) in some European languages, such as Russian and German. As a Christian given name, it refers to the memory of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great ...

, was the lord of Serina (Sina, or Cerüja). The settlements of ''Setina e Sipërme'' and ''Setina e Poshtme'' are attested in the Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as villages belonging to the

timar A timar was a land grant by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an annual tax revenue of less than 20,000 akçes. The revenues produced from the land acted as compensation for military service ...

of Karagöz in the

vilayet A vilayet ( ota, , "province"), also known by various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement initiated ...

of Lower Dibra. Both villages had a total of three households respectively and the anthroponymy recorded depicts an overwhelmingly Albanian character, although a single instance of

Slavicisation Slavicisation or Slavicization, is the acculturation of something Slavic into a non-Slavic culture, cuisine, region, or nation. To a lesser degree, it also means acculturation or adoption of something non-Slavic into Slavic culture or terms. Th ...

via the usage of the suffix -''ovići'' is attested in the latter settlement. From Setina e Sipërme: ''Gjon Vlashi'', ''Gjon Niqifori'', and ''Vlash Bilashi''. From Setina e Poshtme: ''Dimitri Kastrijoti'', ''Pal Pirovići'', and ''Kolë Prifti''.

Notable people

Skanderbeg , reign = 28 November 1443 – 17 January 1468 , predecessor = Gjon Kastrioti , successor = Gjon Kastrioti II , spouse = Donika Arianiti , issue = Gjon Kastrioti II , royal house = Kastrioti , father ...

, national hero of

References

Populated places in Dibër (municipality) Villages in Dibër County {{Dibër-geo-stub