Dardha (Korça)

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Dardhë
Dardha
Dardha (Korça) (Albania)
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Coordinates: 40 ° 31 '  N , 20 ° 50'  E

Basic data
Qark : Korça
Municipality : Korça
Height : 1,300  m above sea level A.
Culture and history
City Festival : August 16 ( Assumption of Mary )
Stone houses paved streets shape the townscape.

Stone houses paved streets shape the townscape.

Dardha ( Albanian  also  Dardhë ) is a village in the mountains of southeast Albania , which is located in the Bashkia Korça in the Qark Korça . Dardha is located on the east side of the Morava Mountains at around 1300  m above sea level. A. From Korça, Dardha is around 17 kilometers away and via Boboshtica and an over 1500  m above sea level. A.  high pass accessible on asphalt road.

In communist times , Dardha was part of the Miras village in Devoll . Later Dardha was part of the Komuna Drenova , since 2015 the Bashkia Korça. There is no asphalt road connection to Miras, Arëza and other villages in Devolls.

Dardha is isolated in the mountains of south-eastern Albania.

Dardha is one of 100 villages in which the Albanian government wants to specifically promote rural tourism . Tourism is already well developed and has become the most important economic factor: There are several hotels and accommodations that allow a stay in the mountain freshness. Dardha is suitable as a starting point for hikes in the mountains. In winter Albania's only ski lift is  operated above Dardha . The village is also known for its traditional cuisine . Dardha also has a historical core with old houses. The first tourists are said to have visited Dardha as early as the end of the 19th century. In the 1930s a tourist photo booklet was printed about Dardha. The communists built a vacation home in Dardha. Today there is also a small museum dedicated to the traditional culture of the village.

The village church is protected as a cultural monument.

Dardha is a rather young village, built around 1600. Through only after the Oppukation Albania Ottomans emerged, it was a retreat from - mostly Christian - people who were persecuted by the Turks. Unlike many other villages in the region, Dardha was never destroyed by the Ottomans. There has been a Greek school in Dardha since 1768 . In 1917 a school opened offering lessons in Albanian. The St. George's Church (Kisha e Shën Gjergjit) from the year 1839, according to senior sources only its iconostasis is as since 1970 a cultural monument protected. In the 1970s the church served as a cafeteria for the holiday home.

In the first half of the 20th century, many people from Dardha emigrated to the USA . The emigrants also contributed to the development of Dardha, having built a modern school (a cultural monument since 2018) and a mobile road in the mid-1920s. A descendant of emigrants from Dardha is the American astronaut  William George Gregory .

The population traditionally consists of Orthodox Albanians . In the 1950s, some Aromanian families settled here. Since the collapse of the communist system, Dardha has also been severely affected by emigration .

Web links

Commons : Dardha  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Adriana Stefani: Dardha Touristic Village. In: dardha.org. January 2, 2018, accessed March 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Official map 1: 50,000 of the military cartographic office of Albania, sheet K-34-126-B, 2nd edition 1982
  3. ↑ a b Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985, keyword Dardha , p. 170 .
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  5. ↑ Dardha ne 100 fshatrat, flet Kryetari i bashkisë Korçë. In: Agjencia Telegrafike Shqiptare. April 22, 2018, accessed March 22, 2020 (Albanian).
  6. ↑ The village of Dardhë, the only ski resort in Albania. In: en.albanianews.it. January 14, 2019, accessed on March 22, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Motrat e Mbretit Zog krijuan albumin e parë turistik të Shqipërisë. In: Lajmi.net. September 3, 2015, accessed March 23, 2020 (Albanian).
  8. ↑ a b Dardha, fshati turistik ku ngrenëvila pushtetarë dhe biznesmenë. In: Shqiptarja.com. August 6, 2013, accessed March 23, 2020 (Albanian).
  9. ↑ a b Asterios Koukoudis: The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora . Zitros, Thessaloniki 2003, ISBN 978-960-7760-86-9 , p. 382 f . "The interesting thing about Dardhë is that, unlike the other Christian villages on Grammos, it did not suffer any serious destruction or collapse. Its inhabitants never had to leave and the village developed into a kind of center of resistance for local Christians. The Vlach inhabitants of modern Dardhë are apparently descended from Arvanitovlach nomads who settled there in the twentieth century. "
  10. ↑ Map - IMK WebGIS. Card entry. In: Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës. Retrieved March 23, 2020 (Albanian).
  11. ↑ Lista e monumenteve të Kulturës - Qarku Korçë. (PDF) In: Instituti i Monumenteve të Kulturës. 2018, accessed March 23, 2020 (Albanian).
  12. ↑ ADRIANA STEFANI KURUNI: Kisha Shen Gjergjit, Dardhe on YouTube , June 8, 2012, accessed on March 23, 2020.
  13. ↑ Jochen Blanken: A contemporary witness reports on 40 years of DAFG. In: German-Albanian Friendship Society. Retrieved March 24, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Shkolla e Dardhës shpallet monument kulture. Yes vlerat historike dhe arkitekturore. In: Korça Report. August 25, 2018, accessed March 23, 2020 (Albanian).
  15. ↑ Georga Pani: Astronauti dardhar William Gregory. In: dardha.org. February 11, 2012, accessed March 23, 2020 (Albanian).
  16. ↑ Vassilis Nitsiakos: On the border: Transborder mobility, ethnic groups and boundaries along the Albanian-Greek frontier . LIT, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-643-10793-0 , pp. 396 ( excerpt from Google book search): “I cannot confirm my previous information of Dardhë being a Vlach village. There are very few Vlach families here and they came in after 1950. The old inhabitants of the village were Orthodox Albanians and most of them have moved to the urban centers of Albania, mainly Tirana and Korçë; some went to America. "