Koman (Albania)
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Koman Komani |
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Coordinates: 42 ° 5 ' N , 19 ° 49' E |
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| Qark : | Shkodra | ||
| Municipality : | Vau-Deja | ||
| Height : | 83 m above sea level A. | ||
Koman ( Albanian also Komani ) is a small place in northern Albania in the municipality of Vau-Deja . Until 2015 it was part of the small Komuna Temal , which was then repealed in an administrative reform.
geography
The place is in the valley of the Drin on the southern edge of the Albanian Alps . A little more than 30 kilometers long road connects Koman along the Vau-Deja reservoir with Vau-Deja.
In the 1980s, a hydropower plant was built in Koman , which was named after Enver Hoxha . The approximately 100 meter high dam dams the river Drin to the Koman reservoir . Ferries to Fierza operate on the lake : at least one passenger ferry every day and car ferries in summer. There are also tours on the lake for tourists. The Vau Deja Lake, which was formed 15 years earlier, practically backs up to Koman.
The center is on the southern bank of the Drin; the power station was built on the opposite side. The region's infrastructure is very weak.
history
The earliest mention of Koman comes from a church report from the year 1629. At the end of the 19th century there was a Markus church with a rectory in Koman.
The population of the place - probably with the surrounding area - was given as 900 Catholics for 1863. Surveys from the First World War show significantly smaller numbers: Less than 2100 people for the entire Qerreti area, i.e. five other villages in addition to Koman. In 2011 the municipality of Temal, which in turn comprises another area, only had around 1500 inhabitants.
Koman culture
As a result of excavation finds in the region, the term Koman culture emerged as a term for an archaeological culture . The finds date from the 6th to 8th centuries and are evidence of the transition from ancient Illyrian to modern Albanian settlement. The first and most important finds of this time, a necropolis , were discovered on a hill (approx. 550 m above sea level ) east of the village. The so-called Dalmaca Castle probably also contained a church, houses and workshops. At that time, Koman was on the connecting route from the coast to Dardania ( Kosovo ). Much jewelry and axes were found during the excavations. The orientation of the graves corresponds partly to pagan Illyrian tradition, partly to Christian Illyrian practice.
The French consul Alexandre Degrand visited Koman in 1892. After the villagers showed him antique objects, Degrand explored the necropolis and found numerous objects made of iron and bronze as well as bead-embroidered collars. Later the archaeologist P. Träger and the Austrian consul Theodor Ippen examined the necropolis. The latter found a ring there in 1907 that contained incomprehensible words written in Greek letters. Franz Nopcsa examined the site in 1912 and dated it to the early Middle Ages . In 1924 Luigi Ugolini traveled to Koman. Hasan Ceka was able to clearly assign a Christian meaning to the inscriptions on the rings.
Other remnants of the Koman culture were discovered on the island of Shurdhah in the Vau Deja reservoir, in Kruja , Lezha and in the Mirdita , but also in Montenegro , near Ohrid in North Macedonia and on Corfu .
On the one hand, the finds document the continuation of everyday life of the local population at the time of the Great Migration and Slavic invasions . In addition, they show a "continuity [...] from Illyrian-Greco-Roman antiquity through late antiquity to the Albanian Middle Ages" ( Guntram Koch ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Anila Dushi: Temali krahina me vlera unike dhe varfëri të skajshme. In: Shekulli Online. October 24, 2016, Retrieved April 29, 2019 (Albanian).
- ^ Robert Elsie : The Tribes of Albania: History Society and Culture . IB Tauris, London / New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-78453-401-1 , The Komani Tribe, p. 313 f .
- ↑ Engelbert Deusch: Das k. (U.) K. Cultural protectorate in the Albanian settlement area in its cultural, political and economic environment (= To the customer of Southeast Europe . Volume II / 38 ). Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78150-9 , pp. 204 .
- ↑ Engelbert Deusch: Das k. (U.) K. Cultural protectorate in the Albanian settlement area in its cultural, political and economic environment (= To the customer of Southeast Europe . Volume II / 38 ). Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78150-9 , pp. 95 .
- ^ Robert Elsie : The Tribes of Albania: History Society and Culture . IB Tauris, London / New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-78453-401-1 , The Qerreti Tribe, p. 176 .
- ↑ Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Shkodër 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( document as PDF [accessed on April 23, 2018]).
- ^ New Publications . In: Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (ed.): Ancient West & East . tape 4 . Brill, Leiden / Boston 2005, ISBN 978-90-04-14176-6 , pp. 230 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ a b Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985, Kultura e Komanit, p. 572 .
- ↑ Mirsad Basha: Varrezat e Komanit - pasaporta e qytetërimit tonë . In: travel . No. 18 , 2016, p. 26 f .
- ^ A b Neritan Ceka : The Illyrians to the Albanians . Migjeni, Tirana 2005, ISBN 99943-672-2-6 , p. 325-332 .
- ↑ a b Guntram Koch: Albania. Art and culture in the land of the Skipetars (= DuMont art travel guide ). DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2079-5 , p. 46 f .