Dropull
Dropull ( Albanian indefinite, definite: Dropulli ; Greek Δρόπολις Drópolis ) is a region in the Gjirokastra district in southern Albania . It is the broad valley of the Drino , which stretches as a plain from the Greek border to the north of Gjirokastra .
The municipality of Dropull , created in 2015, includes the villages inhabited by the Greek minority , including those in the Pogon Valley and the Kselos Valley . Previously there were two communities in southern Dropull: Dropull i Sipërm (Upper Dropull) with 971 inhabitants and Dropull i Poshtëm (Lower Dropull) with 2100 inhabitants (both 2011). The villages in the Drino Valley inhabited by Greeks include Derviçan , Glina , Jorgucat , Sofratika , Dhuvjan , Frashtan , Kakavija , Bularat , Bodrishta and Vodhina .
history
At Sofratika, the ruins of the Hadrianopolis theater testify to an important Greco-Roman city in the middle of the plain, which was named after the Roman emperor Hadrian . During the 6th century, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I moved the settlement to the present-day village of Peshkëp in southeastern Dropull in order to build a fortified city against the barbarian invasions in a more suitable location . In Byzantine sources this is also called Ioustinianoupolis . Ruins, parts of the aqueduct and remains of churches can still be seen today. In the 11th century the place was called Dryinoupolis . It is believed that this name derives from the old or the nearby Drino river . Since the 5th century the place was also a bishopric.
Due to the poor economic situation in the region, many residents emigrated to the United States of America .
literature
- Christoph Baumann: The Albanian "Transformation Region" Gjirokastra - Structural Change in the 20th Century, Spatial Trends and Patterns of Action in Rural Space , Dissertation, Bamberger Geographische Schriften, Issue 28, Institute for Geography at the University of Bamberg, Bamberg 2008, ISSN 0344-6557
- Council of Europe : Second Report Submitted by Albania Pursuant to Article 25, Paragraph 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities , 2007
- MV Sakellariou: Epirus, 4000 years of Greek history and civilization , 1997 , ISBN 9602133716
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Gjirokastër 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).