Fterra

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Fterrë
Fterra
Fterra (Albania)
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Coordinates: 40 ° 7 '  N , 19 ° 54'  E

Basic data
Qark : Vlora
Municipality : Himara
Height : 400  m above sea level A.

Fterra ( Albanian  also  Fterrë , rarely also Ftera / Fterë ) is a small village in southwestern Albania .

geography

Fterra is located south of Kurvelesh and 10 km north of Borsh in a side valley of the Albanian Riviera . The village belongs to the municipality of Himara in the Vlora Qark . It is 350 to 400  m above sea level. A. on the western slope of the mountain Maja e Lajthisë ( 1418  m above sea level ). The mountain slopes are lightly forested. There are numerous karst springs and some caves. Fterra is on the old road from Borsh to Vlora through the mountains of Kurvelesh .

Ethnological observations

The village, together with the village of Çorraj on the other side of the valley, was portrayed by the albanologists Karl Kaser , Robert Pichler and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers in a book published in 2002 as an example of an Albanian mountain village that is suffering greatly from emigration. Many of the men in the village have been gainfully employed in Greece since the 1990s and use the funds from their emigration to entertain those who remained at home, who also mostly ran pastures and cultivated small fields for subsistence farming . In particular, olives, nuts, figs, citrus fruits and grapes are harvested. Many residents expressed their intention to leave their homeland and settle abroad to the authors.

history

For the first time Fterrë was in 1431 in Suret-i defter-i-i sancak Arvanid ( Defter the Albanian Sanjak ) mentioned in writing. At that time it consisted of twelve - more affluent - families. In the Ottoman Defter of 1583 the place Ifteran is listed with 24 large families and in later years with 45 large families.

Schools in Albanian have been in the village since 1916; extraordinary for the time.

During the Vlora uprising in 1920, 48 men from Fterra took part in the battle under the leadership of Xhafer Shehu .

The magazine " Fterra jonë " (Our Fterra) has been published in Tirana since 1997 and reports on culture and history.

population

In 1944 116 families were counted.

In the summer of 1998 the village had 168 inhabitants who lived in 61 houses in three quarters.

Personalities

literature

  • Karl Kaser, Robert Pichler, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (eds.): The wide world and the village. Albanian emigration at the end of the 20th century. In: To the customer of Southeast Europe. Albanological studies. Volume 3. Böhlau, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99413-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Enciklopedia, p. 100.