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Vërnicë
Vërnicë ( or , or ) is a village in the former Trebisht Municipality in Dibër County in northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Bulqizë. It is situated with in the Gollobordë region, near the border with North Macedonia. History A demographic survey of the population of the village, done in 1873, recorded the village as having 30 households with 97 male Bulgarian Christian residents. In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Varbnitsa was inhabited by about 300 Bulgarian Christians. The "La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne" survey by Dimitar Mishev (D. Brankov) concluded that the village was inhabited by 256 Bulgarian Exarchists. There was a Bulgarian school in the beginning of 20th century in ''Varbnitza''. During the Balkan Wars, two men from the village joined the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps. Elez Koçi was killed in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elez Koçi
Elez Koci (Elez Sadik Koçi) (1856–1916) was a prominent Albanian independence activist from the region of Dibër District, Dibër, Albania. He was born on 1856, in Ostren i Madh, Dibër District, Dibër, in the present-day municipality of Bulqizë. He attended elementary studies in Debar and in 1876 finished the theological high school in Bitola, Monastir. He participated in the 1908 Congress of Monastir which established the Albanian alphabet and also lead a revolt against a new Ottoman Empire, Ottoman administration in the region of Diber in 1911 and was subsequently arrested and sentenced 3 years in prison for rebellion. Ottoman Empire’s delicate and weakening position allowed him to be released early and he was able to participate as a delegate, in the proclamation of independence in Vlora on Albanian independence, November 28, 1912. By 1915 when Bulgaria proclaimed war against Serbia and occupied northeastern territories of Albania, he led an armed uprising to oppose t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trebisht
Trebisht (, ) is a former municipality in the Dibër County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Bulqizë. The population at the 2011 census was 993.2011 census results Geography The village is situated in the geographical area of . Within the municipality, the village of Trebisht consists of the three neighborhoods of Trebisht-Muçinë, Trebisht-Balaj, and Trebisht-Çelebi. (in the local Macedonian dialect - Dunomala, Gurnomala and Unomala). These neighbor ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Nikolla
Daniel Nikolla (born 5 July 1993) is a British-Albanian marketing professional, entrepreneur, and community leader based in the United Kingdom. He is the founder and director of Merx Marketing Ltd. A marketing agency operating in the UK and Albania. Nikolla is a chartered marketer and has held leadership roles, notably as marketing manager at Hardy Signs, where he spearheaded digital transformation initiatives. He is a well-known figure in the Albanian diaspora. Early life Daniel Nikolla was born in Tirana, Albania, on 5 July 1993, to an Albanian family. He grew up in the Brryl neighbourhood of the city with working-class parents, Mitro Nikolla and Fitnete Nikolla. Mitro Nikolla is originally from Vërnicë, a village in Dibër. His dad, Mitro, held the position of the Head of Finance for several institutions, such as Tirana International Airport, Drejtoria e Sherbimeve Qeveritare, Drejtoria e Pergjithshme e Burgjeve, etc. His mother, Fitnete, worked at Albcontrol for over 25 ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vrbnica (other)
Vrbnica (approximate pronunciation: ) may refer to: * Vrbnica, Slovakia, a village and municipality in Slovakia * Vrbnica, Foča, a village in Bosnia and Herzegovina * Vrbnica (Aleksandrovac), a village in Rasina District, central Serbia * Vrbnica (Malo Crniće), a village in Braničevo District, eastern Serbia * Vrbnica (Sjenica), a village in Zlatibor District, southwestern Serbia * Vërmica (Serbian: Vrbnica), a village in Prizren municipality, Kosovo * Vërnicë Vërnicë ( or , or ) is a village in the former Trebisht Municipality in Dibër County in northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Bulqizë. It is situated with in the Gollobordë region, near ... (Bulgarian: Врбница) a village in Dibër, Gollobordë region, Albania See also * * Vrabnitsa * Vrbica (other) {{Place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gollobordë
Gollobordë ( sq-definite, Golloborda or Kalabardha; ; ) refers to a geographical area of traditionally 24 villages of which 18 are situated primarily in eastern Albania, with a small portion consisting of six villages lying within North Macedonia. This region is located within the Dibër and Elbasan counties which contain both Macedonian and Albanian villages. This region, like neighboring regions, has historically been economically linked to the city of Debar, which was traditionally referred to by inhabitants as simply "the City" or "Shehr". History Ottoman period The Islamization process is held to have occurred in Golloborda relatively late in Ottoman times.Toncheva, Veselka (2013). "The Slavonic Community from the Golo Bardo Region, Republic of Albania: Traditions, Music, Identity". ''Our Europe. Ethnography – Ethnology – Anthropology of Culture''. Volume 2. Pages 40–42 In 1519, the region was still entirely Christian.Limanoski Niyazi (1993), Islamizatsijata i e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the tenth largest within the European Union and the List of European countries by area, sixteenth-largest country in Europe by area. Sofia is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city; other major cities include Burgas, Plovdiv, and Varna, Bulgaria, Varna. One of the earliest societies in the lands of modern-day Bulgaria was the Karanovo culture (6,500 BC). In the 6th to 3rd century BC, the region was a battleground for ancient Thracians, Persians, Celts and Ancient Macedonians, Macedonians; stability came when the Roman Empire conquered the region in AD 45. After the Roman state splintered, trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Slavic Languages
The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches (West Slavic languages, West and East Slavic languages, East) by a belt of German language, German, Hungarian language, Hungarian and Romanian language, Romanian speakers. History The first South Slavic language to be written (also the first attested Slavic language) was the variety of the Eastern South Slavic spoken in Thessaloniki, now called Old Church Slavonic, in the ninth century. It is retained as a liturgical language in Slavic Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox churches in the form of various local Church Slavonic language, Church Slavonic traditions. Classification The South Slavic languages constitute a Dialect continuum#South Slavic continuum, dialect continuum. Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin constitute a single dialect wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavs
The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeastern Europe, and Northern Asia, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe, and Northern Europe. Early Slavs lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to the 10th century AD), and came to control large parts of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe between the sixth and seventh centuries. Beginning in the 7th century, they were gradually Christianized. By the 12th century, they formed the core population of a number of medieval Christian states: East Slavs in the Kievan Rus', South Slavs in the Bulgarian Empire, the Principality of Serbia, the Duchy of Croatia and the Banate of B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is List of Christian denominations by number of members, one of the three major doctrinal and jurisdictional groups of Christianity, with approximately 230 million baptised members. It operates as a Communion (Christian), communion of autocephalous churches, each governed by its Bishop (Orthodox Church), bishops via local Holy Synod, synods. The church has no central doctrinal or governmental authority analogous to the pope of the Catholic Church. Nevertheless, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is recognised by them as ''primus inter pares'' (), a title held by the patriarch of Rome prior to 1054. As one of the oldest surviving religious institutions in the world, the Eastern Orthodox Church has played an especially prominent role in the history and culture of Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeastern Europe. Since 2018, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern South Slavic
The Eastern South Slavic dialects form the eastern subgroup of the South Slavic languages. They are spoken mostly in Bulgaria and North Macedonia, and adjacent areas in the neighbouring countries. They form the so-called Balkan Slavic linguistic area, which encompasses the southeastern part of the dialect continuum of South Slavic. Linguistic features Languages and dialects Eastern South Slavic dialects share a number of characteristics that set them apart from the other branch of the South Slavic languages, the Western South Slavic languages. The Eastern South Slavic group consists of Bulgarian and Macedonian, and according to some authors encompasses the southeastern dialect of Serbian language, Serbian, the so-called Prizren-Timok dialect. The last is part of the broader transitional Torlakian dialects, Torlakian dialectal area. The Balkan Slavic area is also part of the Balkan Sprachbund. The external boundaries of the Balkan Slavic/Eastern South Slavic area can ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulqizë
Bulqizë (; sq-definite, Bulqiza) is a municipality in Dibër County, northeastern Albania. The municipality consists of the administrative units of Fushë-Bulqizë, Gjoricë, Martanesh, Ostren, Shupenzë, Trebisht, Zerqan with Bulqizë constituting its seat. As of the 2023 census, there were 7,875 people residing in Bulqizë and 26,826 in Bulqizë Municipality. Demographic history Bulqizë is recorded in the Ottoman ''defter'' of 1467 as a '' hass-ı mir-liva'' and '' derbendci'' settlement in the vilayet of '' Dulgoberda''. Although the register's complete survey on the village is missing, the following household heads are attested: ''Dimitri Bogdani'', ''Kolë Sharqini'', ''Gjin Kimeza'', ''Gjin Kolandi'', ''Nikolla Budi'', ''Martin Bardi'', ''Progon Buljani'', ''Maqe Kimëza'', ''Istvan Nenada'', ''Progon Bogdani'', ''Dimitri'', ''Todor Damëza'', ''Banek Alakasa'', ''Nikolla Mesina'', ''Budi'', ''Gjergj Garuja'', and ''Gjergj Iglat'' (from ''i gjatë'', "the tall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
