Lin (Albania)

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View from Qafë Thana in east direction to Lin and Lake Ohrid
Village center on the lake shore
Early Christian mosaic in Lin

Lin ( Albanian  also  Lini ) is a village on the west bank of Lake Ohrid in eastern Albania . The village belonging to the municipality of Pogradec is located below the Qafë Thana pass on a small peninsula directly on the lake shore. The border with North Macedonia runs about two kilometers north of Lin ; Pogradec is 22 kilometers further south. In the immediate vicinity of the village, the main road runs from Elbasan via Përrenjas to Pogradec and Korça . The North Macedonian city of Struga is ten kilometers away in the north.

Lin has a mosque, a Christian Orthodox church, and elementary and middle school. The townscape is characterized by old stone houses in the style of the region. In addition to agriculture, fishing and breeding, tourism has also become a source of income for the residents.

The Lin peninsula has been inhabited since at least the Iron Age , as has been proven by archaeological excavations . The prehistoric and ancient settlements were all on the hilltop above the present day town. The foundation walls and floor mosaics of an early Christian church from the 6th century were also discovered there.

In ancient times, Lin was inhabited by Illyrians . Slavs settled in the 7th or 8th century . Up to the beginning of the 20th century, a Macedonian or Bulgarian dialect was spoken in Lin in addition to Albanian . Today the population is completely Albanian.

Until 2015 Lin belonged to the Komuna Hudenisht , which was then incorporated into the Bashkia Pogradec.

literature

  • G. Fiaccadori: Note storiche ai mosaici di Lin (Albania) . In III. Colloquio internazionale sul mosaico antico, Ravenna, 6-10 September 1980, ed. v. R. Farioli Campanati. Ravenna 1984. pp. 185-196.

Web links

Commons : Lin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le patrimoine culturel dans le Sud-Est européen: Albanie. Report de mission 26 avril - 7 may 2004. UNESCO , accessed on 1 December 2013 (French, p. 93 f .; PDF file, 3.50 MB).
  2. ↑ Klaus Steinke, Xhelal Ylli: The Slavic minorities in Albania . In: Slavic Contributions . tape 1 , no. 458 . Munich 2007, p. 360-363 and p. 9, Not. 3 .

Coordinates: 41 ° 4 ′  N , 20 ° 38 ′  E