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Himarë
Himarë ( sq-definite, Himara; , ''Chimara'' or Χειμάρρα, ''Cheimarra'') is a Municipalities of Albania, municipality and region in Vlorë County, southern Albania. The municipality has a total area of and consists of the administrative units of Himarë, Horë-Vranisht and Lukovë. It lies between the Ceraunian Mountains and the Albanian Ionian Sea Coast and is part of the Albanian Riviera. The traditionally perceived borders of the Himarë region gradually shrank during the Ottoman period, being reduced to the Himarë (town), town of Himarë and the villages of the coastline (Bregdet in Albanian), generally including only Palasë, Dhërmi, Pilur, Kudhës, Vuno, Iljas and Qeparo. The coastal region of Himarë is predominantly populated by an ethnic Greeks in Albania, Greek community.Hammond, 1993p. 405 "It is one of the several Greek-speaking villages in which the centre is Himare... Liaps" The local population is bilingual in Greek and Albanian. The town of Himarë and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vuno
Vuno is a village in the municipality of Himarë, Vlorë County, Albania. It is situated along the road that connects the center of Himarë with the village of Dhërmi on the Albanian Riviera. The population of Vuno is exclusively composed of Orthodox Albanians. Name The village's name derives from the Greek word ''Vouno'' (), meaning , reflecting its location on hills that rise to approximately 300 metres (980 ft). History In 1628, Neophytos Rodinos, a Catholic missionary, founded a school in Vuno with the aim of converting the Greek Orthodox population of Himarë to Catholicism. In 1632, an Albanian school was established in the village. In 1720, the villages of Himarë, Palasë, Ilias, Vuno, Pilur, and Qeparo refused to submit to the Pasha of Delvinë. According to Giuseppe Schirò, an Italian missionary who wrote in 1722, Vuno was inhabited by Albanians. In 1873, a Greek school in Vuno had 80 pupils. Greek education expanded in the following years, and by the 1898–189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himarë (town)
Himarë ( sq-definite, Himara, Greek language, Greek: Χειμάρρα, Romanization of Greek, romanized: ''Himárra'') is a town in Southern Albania along the Albanian Riviera and part of the Vlorë County. It is the largest settlement and the seat of the municipality of Himarë. The town is populated predominantly by an ethnic Greeks in Albania, Greek community. History In antiquity the region was inhabited by the Greek tribe of the Chaonians. "Epirus was a land of milk and animal products...The social unit was a small tribe, consisting of several nomadic or semi-nomadic groups, and these tribes, of which more than seventy names are known, coalesced into large tribal coalitions, three in number: Thesprotians, Molossians and Chaonians...We know from the discovery of inscriptions that these tribes were speaking the Greek language (in a West-Greek dialect)" The town of Himarë is believed to have been founded as ''Χίμαιρα'',An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhërmi
Dhërmi ( sq-definite, Dhërmiu; , ''Drymádes'') is a village in Vlorë County, Albania. It is part of the municipality of Himarë. The village lies 42 kilometers south of the city of Vlorë and 69 kilometers north of the southern city of Sarandë. It is built on a slope of the Ceraunian Mountains at approximately 200 meters in altitude, and comprises three neighborhoods: Gjilek, Kondraq, Kallami, and Dhërmi itself. The mountains descend to the southwest into the Ionian coast and Corfu in the distance to the south. Nearby is the village of Palasë. The local inhabitants of Dhërmi are ethnic Greeks that mainly speak a variant of the Greek Himariote dialect, and partly the Tosk Albanian dialect.: "The official Albanian name Dhërmi is mainly used by those inhabitants and seasonal workers who use the southern (Tosk) or the northern (Ghek) Albanian dialects. Many of these newcomers and seasonal workers moved to the village from other parts of Albania during (1945-1990) or after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greeks In Albania
The Greeks in Albania are ethnic Greeks who live in or originate from areas within modern Albania. They form the largest minority group in the country. They are mostly concentrated in the south of the country, in the areas of the northern part of the historical region of Epirus, in parts of Vlorë County, Gjirokastër, Korçë, and Berat County. The area is also known as Northern Epirus. Consequently, the Greeks hailing specifically from Southern Albania are also known as Northern Epirotes ( ''Vorioipirotes'', ). The Greeks who live in the "minority zones" of Albania are officially recognised by the Albanian government as the Greek National Minority of Albania (, ''Elliniki Mionotita stin Alvania''; ). In 1913, after the end of five centuries of Ottoman rule, the area was included under the sovereignty of the newly founded Albanian state. The following year, Greeks revolted and declared their independence, and with the following Protocol of Corfu the area was recognised as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palasë
Palasë ( or ''Palasa''; , ''Palasa'') also Paljasa () (), is a village in Himarë municipality (13 kilometres from the town), Vlorë County, southern Albania. It is located near the Llogara National Park and next to the Ionian coast on the Albanian Riviera. The village is inhabited by ethnic Greeks who speak the unique Himariote Greek dialect. History In classical antiquity, Roman writer Lucan recorded a site named Palaeste on the Ceraunian Mountains in Chaonia, which may correspond to modern-day Palasë. The name ''Palaeste'' is considered to be Illyrian. ''Palaeste'' was also considered as being geographically located in southern Illyria, next to Oricum.: "Zu *pal- "Sumpf, seichtes Gewasser". Es gab illyrische Stämme der Plaraioi bzw . Palarioi ; s . auch Palaeste , Stadt in Südillyrien bei Orikon" In Palaeste, Julius Caesar landed from Brundusium, in order to carry on the war against Pompey.Lucan, '' Phars''5.460 "''caelo languente fretoque naufragii spes omnis abit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qeparo
Qeparo ( sq-definite, Qeparoi; , ''Kiparo'') is a seaside village in the municipality of Himara in Vlorë County, Albania. The village is part of the Albanian Riviera and is divided into two parts – Upper or Old Qeparo on higher ground, and Lower or New Qeparo on the coast. Qeparo is an Albanian-speaking village. Name The first identified form of the name of the village is "Clapero" in the 1566 correspondence of the people of Himara who were seeking refuge from the Ottoman Empire with the Kingdom of Naples. The name is thought to derive from the word kllapë and the Greek suffix ''-erό'', which is commonly used in toponyms (e.g. Vromero). As "kllapë/klapa" has nearly the same meaning in the local Albanian and Greek dialects, the question arises as to whether the name is Albanian or Greek. The form ''Qeparo'' is a later innovation which was produced via vowel metathesis and the typical shift of /kl/ to /q/ in southern Albanian dialects. History Antiquity and medieval per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iljas
Iljas ( sq-definite, Iljasi; ) is a village in Himarë municipality (13 kilometres from the town), Vlorë County, southern Albania. It is located near the Ionian coast on the Albanian Riviera. Demographics The village of Iljas is inhabited by an Eastern Orthodox Albanian population.Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995).Η ελληνική κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το πρίσμα της ιστορικής γεωγραφίας και δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in terms of historical geography and demography" In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). ''Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]''. University of Athens. p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί"; p.53. "ILIASI ΙΛΙΑΣ 124 ΑΧ" History In 1720, the villages of Himara, Palasë, Ilias, Vuno Vuno is a village in the municipality of Himarë, Vlorë County, Albania. It is situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vlorë County
Vlorë County (; ) is one of the 12 counties of Albania with the city of Vlorë being the county capital. The county spans and has a total population of 146,681 people as of 2023. It borders the counties of Fier and Gjirokastër, as well as the Adriatic and Ionian Sea. Greece borders Vlorë to the south. Vlorë is geographically a very mountainous county. The county stretches along the Adriatic Sea and especially the Ionian Sea, forming the Albanian Riviera. The county has a coastline of . The coasts on the west can be very steep and rocky with green panoramic vistas and high mountains in the hinterland, including the Ceraunian Mountains. The highest natural point is Çikë, at . The northwest of the county is mostly located on the peninsula of Karaburun, with a rough relief, steep cliffs, bays and rocky beaches. With about than 146,000 inhabitants in 2023, Vlorë is the seventh most populous county within Albania, and the third most populous within the Southern Region. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Albania
Municipalities ( or ) are the second-level administrative divisions of Albania, below the counties and above the communes. Since the most recent administrative reforms in 2014, Albania has 61 municipalities. History Municipalities are considered the basic administrative division of Albania. Since its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania has reorganized internal administration 21 times. From independence until the year 2000, regional government was organized into regions () of varying numbers, size, and importance. They were consolidated into groups comprising 12 counties in 1991. Following the 1998 constitutional reforms, the 36 regions of the time were abolished entirely and replaced by the larger counties and two kinds of municipalities: urban municipalities () and rural ones (). In 2014, this was revised to reduce the number of urban municipalities to 61 and extended their jurisdiction over the surrounding countryside to create region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vangjel Tavo
Vangjel Tavo (; 17 December 1969) is an Albanian politician who was elected mayor of Himarë on the repeat elections on 4 August 2024; he was sworn in on 30 September 2024. Tavo was member of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania for the Socialist Movement for Integration and served as the Minister of Health from 2012 to 2013, replacing Petrit Vasili. Tavo is an ethnic Greek, born on 17 December 1969 in Jorgucat, a village in Gjirokastër County. Tavo was first in the Socialist Party of Albania but left for joining the LSI. Tavo started his political career in 1996 when he, representing the Socialist Party of Albania, won the elections in Gjirokastra. Until 2010, he was an MP of Albania, being a member of the Socialist Party; he then moved to LSI. In March 2024, he accepted Edi Rama's invitation and was appointed prefect of Vlorë County, until he ran in the repeat local elections for the municipality of Himarë with the support of the Socialist Party of Albania The Socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilur
Pilur is a village on the Albanian Riviera in Vlorë County, Albania. It is part of the Himarë municipality. Demographics The village of Pilur is inhabited exclusively by an Albanian Albanian may refer to: *Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular: **Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans **Albanian language **Albanian culture **Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...-speaking Orthodox Albanian population.Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995).Η ελληνική κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το πρίσμα της ιστορικής γεωγραφίας και δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in terms of historical geography and demography" In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). ''Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]''. University of Athens. p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανο� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kudhës
Kudhës is a village on the Albanian Riviera, Vlorë County, Albania. It is part of the Himarë municipality. Etymology Kudhës and the river with the same name is related to the Albanian language, Albanian word ''kudh'' "pot, jug", therefore meaning "potter’s river, pot-shaped river". The toponym is formed with the Albanian nominal suffix --ëѕ, cf. ''Gjerbës'', ''Krahës, Krahëѕ''. It was recorded as ''Kudes'' in 1431 in Ottoman defters and ''Coudessi'' in 1805 by François Pouqueville. Demographics The village of Kudhës is inhabited by an Orthodox Albanian population.Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995).Η ελληνική κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το πρίσμα της ιστορικής γεωγραφίας και δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in terms of historical geography and demography" In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). ''Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
