Kapshtica
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Kapshticë Kapshtica |
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Coordinates: 40 ° 36 ' N , 21 ° 1' E |
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| Qark : | Korça | ||
| Municipality : | Devil | ||
| Height : | 940 m above sea level A. | ||
| Postal code : | 7006 | ||
Kapshtica ( Albanian also Kapshticë ) is a small village in the municipality of Devoll in south-eastern Albania . Until 2015 it belonged to the dissolved Komuna Qendër Bilisht and is located on the eastern edge of the Devoll Plain, around four kilometers southeast of the small town of Bilisht . The place is located at the transition to the mountains that form the border with Greece and the watershed between the Adriatic and the Aegean .
The border crossing Kapshtica- Krystallopigi ( 1044 m above sea level ) in the mountains around five kilometers east of the village is of national importance. During communist times and for many years afterwards, it was the only border crossing between the two countries next to Kakavija south of Gjirokastra . Even today, the control post between Gjirokastra and Ioannina is the most important crossing, along with Kakavija. The route crossing the border is the European route 86 , which connects central Albania with the south-east of the country and the border. On the Albanian side, the road is called Rruga shtetërore SH3 . The next larger towns in Greece are Florina (approx. 60 kilometers) and Kastoria (approx. 50 kilometers). After Thessaloniki is around 230 kilometers, according to Athens around 550 kilometers. The SH3 passes the place north today. It used to lead through the village in an arch.
The border village, like the whole region around Bilisht, is characterized by its proximity to the neighboring country. In addition to agriculture, this proximity has long provided individual income since the collapse of communism in Albania, as Albanian migrants who wanted to enter Greece illegally needed board and lodging, had to change money and needed guides to cross the border secretly. This is likely to have changed since Albanians no longer needed a visa to travel to the Schengen area (end of 2010).
In 1900 Kapshtica had 400 Muslim and 150 Orthodox residents. On May 28, 1920, the Albanian Prime Minister Sulejman Delvina signed the Kapshtica Protocol with Greece , in which they recognized the border between the two countries and prevented an occupation of the Korça region by Greek troops after the French army withdrew from Albania would have.
Web links
- Image gallery Kapshtica (Devolli.net)
- ORF report on the situation at the border crossing in March 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gilles de Rapper: Crossing Borders. Migration in the Albanian border region of Devoll . In: Karl Kaser, Robert Pichler, Stephanie Schwander-Sievers (eds.): The wide world and the village. Albanian emigration at the end of the 20th century = To the customer of Southeast Europe: Albanological studies . tape 3 . Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-205-99413-2 , p. 83-106 .
- ↑ Vasil Kanchov: Македония. Етнография и Статистика. 1900, accessed February 6, 2015 (Bulgarian).
- ^ Michael Schmidt-Neke : Development and expansion of the royal dictatorship in Albania (1912-1939) . In: Southeast European Works . tape 84 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54321-0 .
- ↑ For the wording of the agreement cf. Ekrem Bey Vlora : Memoirs . In: Southeast European Works . Volume II (1912 to 1925), No. 67 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-486-47571-1 , p. 137 (footnote 21).