Piqeras

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Piqeras
Piqeras (Albania)
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Coordinates: 40 ° 1 ′  N , 19 ° 54 ′  E

Basic data
Qark : Vlora
Municipality : Himara
Height : 208  m above sea level A.
Postal code : 9715

Piqeras ( Albanian  also  Piqerasi ; Greek Πικέρνη Pikerni ) is a small village in southern Albania . The place in Qark Vlora on the Albanian Riviera belonged to the Lukova municipality until 2015 , which was then assigned to the Bashkia Himara .

The village from the north

geography

The village lies on the slope of the mountain Maja e Plirit ( 769  m above sea level. A. ) on a terrace at an altitude of around 160- 220  m above sea level. A. over the Ionian Sea a little more than 25 kilometers north of Saranda and around 25 kilometers south of Himara. The neighboring villages are Borsh in the north and Lukova in the south and little Sassaj three kilometers to the southeast.

Above the coastal road Rruga shtetërore SH8 , which passes through the village at the top, is majority Buildable land with Macchiegewächs , below the road are vast olive and citrus - groves .

Immediately below the national road is the main square of the village with a lapidary , a spring, the culture house with the church and several apparment blocks from the communist era. In the district below there are still numerous old houses with historically valuable architectural elements. There is a school and a post office in the village, as well as a few small shops and cafes.

Bunec Beach in 2004 before tourist development

To the south of the village is the small Bunec beach. Where there is now a small bathing beach, there used to be a small pier for boats that regularly went to Corfu and Italy . Military facilities and a long concrete pier were later built. A simple beach tourism with a few beach bars and simple accommodations has developed here in recent years. The large artillery bunkers were removed for this purpose .

population

During on-site investigations in 1992, 991 inhabitants were counted in Piqeras. The majority were Albanian Orthodox . A minority of 100 people were Muslim Albanians, 50 belonged to the Greek minority .

Like the entire coastal region, Piqeras was also affected by heavy migration in the period that followed. The majority of the population emigrated, mainly to Greece . Only around a quarter of the houses are still inhabited, mostly by old people.

Population development
1926 1945 1950 1960 1969 1979 1989
798 658 826 540 761 788 917

history

The village was first mentioned in writing in 1431 as Pikerni , when it was conquered by the Ottomans . At that time 42 families lived in the village.

In 1551, two new districts were founded by residents from Kurvelesh .

On December 6, 1742 was Greek Orthodox village with its 372 residents from the Islam converted population of Borsh and Golem in Kurvelesh attacked. After six days of bloody fighting in the Ceraunic Mountains , the inhabitants of Piqeras decided, under the care of the Albanian papas D. Demetrio Atanasi, D. Macario Nica Basiliano, D. Spiridione d'Andrea, D. Micheli Spiro d'Andrea, D. Giuani Nica, D. Macario Nica to leave their hometown. While a smaller group fled to the neighboring town of Lukova and the surrounding area, the larger group fled under the leadership of the papas via the southern neighboring towns of Lukova, Klikursi, Shën Vasil to Nivica-Bubar , from where they shipped via Corfu to the island of Othoni , which at that time belonged to the Republic of Venice . Several other families joined them along the way. When they realized that they could no longer return to Piqeras and could not stay on the island of Othoni, they decided to emigrate to the "Albania-friendly" Kingdom of Naples . Before that, however, the De Martino brothers secretly returned to Piqeras at night to fetch the icon of St. Mary Hodegetria (from ancient Greek : who points the way ) from the Marienkirche of the Krimarova monastery . It should show the refugees the right way. The icon can still be found today in the church of Santa Maria Assunta in Villa Badessa . In 1743, 18 families (a total of 73 people) reached Brindisi by ship in what was then the Kingdom of Naples, where they were welcomed benevolently by the then Spanish King of Naples Charles VII (as Charles III King of Spain) and accompanied by at the expense of the Crown two Albanian officers (D. Costantin Blassi, D. Pati Gini) and an auxiliary major (D. Demetrio di Micheli) were transported to the Abruzzo region . There the Arbëresh ( ethnic minority of the Albanians in Italy) founded the Badessa settlement (today the Villa Badessa fraction ). The first baptism was performed on November 18, 1743 in Badessa.

North-east of the village at an altitude of 360  m above sea level. A. In 1625 the monastery of St. Mary of Krimarova (Manastir i Shën Mërisë së Krimarovës) was founded. The monastery church from 1972 is a national cultural monument. In the center of the village, the Shën Thanasit church was built in the 18th century as a gift from a captain Dhimitër Gjika from Naples . Destroyed by the communists in 1967, it was later rebuilt in the cultural center built in its place.

In 1856 there were 60 Christian houses in Piqeras, the residents of which spoke Greek and Arvanitika . The emigration from Piqeras was particularly strong in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

During the communist era, shipping and livestock farming were restricted in the region. The cultivation of citrus fruits gained importance, for which the whole coastal region was terraced by volunteer youths . Piqeras, Sassaj and Lukova formed an agricultural cooperative .

Sons and daughters

Remarks

  1. ↑ Secular clergyman in the Orthodox Church

literature

  • Leonidas Kallivretakis: Νέα Πικέρνη Δήμου Βουπρασίων: το χρονικό ενός οικισμού της Πελοποννήσου τον 19ο αιώνα (και η περιπέτεια ενός πληθυσμού) [New Pikerni demos Vouprassion: The Chapters of the settlement of the Peloponnese in the 19th century (and the adventure of a people)] . In: Vasilis Panagiotopoulos (ed.): Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου: ιστορικά μελετήματα [populations and settlements of the Greek villages: historical essays] . Institute for Neohellenic Research, Athens 2003, p. 221–242 (Greek, helios-eie.ekt.gr [PDF]).
  • Erwin Heimann: Our Albanian adventure . GS-Verlag, Bern 1986, ISBN 3-7185-3059-7 (first edition: Bernerheft No. 189, 1938, travel report from 1936 with a focus on the stay in Piqeras).

Web links

Commons : Piqeras  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ligj No. 115/2014 për ndarjen administrativo-territoriale të njësive të qeverisjes vendore në Republikën e Shqipërisë (Law on the Administrative and Territorial Subdivision of the Units of the Provincial Government in the Republic of Albania). (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: reformaterritoriale.al. July 31, 2014, p. 6365 ff., In particular p. 6376 , archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; Retrieved February 25, 2017 (Albanian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reformaterritoriale.al
  2. ↑ a b c d e Integrated Coastal Development Study and Plan for the Southern Albanian Region. (PDF) Appendix: Detailed Site Analysis. (No longer available online.) 2006, pp. A79 ff , archived from the original on February 26, 2017 ; accessed on February 25, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stari.gradst.hr
  3. ^ Integrated Coastal Development Study and Plan for the Southern Albanian Region. (PDF) Interim Rerport. (No longer available online.) October 2005, p. 173 , archived from the original on February 26, 2017 ; accessed on February 25, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stari.gradst.hr
  4. ↑ File: Bunec beach Albanian Riviera.jpg
  5. ↑ Leonidas Kallivretakis: Η ελληνική κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το πρίσμα της ιστορικής γεωγραφίας και δημογραφίας . In: Ilias Nikolakopoulos, Theodoros A. Kouloubis, Thanos M. Veremis (eds.): Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας . University of Athens, Leonidas 1995, p. 34, 50 f, 53. "Στα πλαίσια της επιτόπιας έρευνας που πραγματοποιήσαμε στην Αλβανία (Νοέμβριος-Δεκέμβριος 1992) μελετήσαμε το ζήτημα των εθνοπολιτισμικών ομάδων, όπως αυτές συνειδητοποιούνται σήμερα επί τόπου. [S. 34] Ε Έλληνες, ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί, AM Αλβανοί Μουσουλμάνοι. [S. 51] PIQERAS ΠΙΚΙΕΡΑΣ (ΠΙΚΕΡΝΗ) 991 ΑΧ + αμ (100) + ε (50) [S. 53] "
  6. ^ Russel King, Julie Vullnetari: Orphan pensioners and migrating grandparents: the impact of mass migration on older people in rural Albania . In: Aging & Society . No. 26 . Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 783-816 , doi : 10.1017 / S0144686X06005125 .
  7. ^ Integrated Coastal Development Study and Plan for the Southern Albanian Region. (PDF) Interim Rerport. (No longer available online.) October 2005, p. 58 , archived from the original on February 26, 2017 ; accessed on February 25, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / stari.gradst.hr
  8. ↑ a b Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985, Piqerasi, p. 836 .
  9. ↑ a b c James Pettifer: Albania & Kosovo (=  Blue Guide ). 3. Edition. A & C Black, London 2001, ISBN 0-7136-5016-8 , pp. 484 .
  10. ^ Hotel Tirana . In: newsletter Albania . No. 8 , May 5, 1995, pp. 21 .
  11. ^ A b Jano Koçi: Himara. Arkeologji, histori, cultures, Himara sot . Gent Grafik, Tirana 2006, ISBN 99927-810-5-X , p. 85 f .
  12. ↑ a b c K. Ch Vamvas. Περί των εν Ιταλία Ελληνοαλβανών και ιδίως των εις Ελλάδα μεταναστευσάντων (On the Greek Albanians in Italy and especially for those who migrated to Greece) . Parnassos Literary Society, Athens 1877, p. 24 (Greek, lsparnas.gr ). lsparnas.gr ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 21, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lsparnas.gr
  13. ↑ a b c Papas Andrea Figlia: About the Albanians settled in Capitanata in Apulia ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Manuscript by Papàs Andrea Figlia from Mezzojuso to Papàs Paolo Parrino, Rector of the Greek-Albanian Seminary and Pastor of the Greek Congregation of Palermo, written in Naples on June 12, 1764 (Italian), accessed on February 20, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jemi.it
  14. ^ History of the municipality of Rosciano. In: Comunedirosciano.it. Retrieved February 20, 2017 (Italian).
  15. ^ Associazione Culturale Villa Badessa. In: Villabadessa.it. Retrieved February 22, 2017 (Italian).
  16. ↑ Leonidas Kallivretakis, p. 223.
  17. ↑ a b Carmela Perta, Simone Ciccolone, Silvia Canù: Sopravvivenze linguistiche arbëreshe a Villa Badessa, Il segno e le lettere, Collana del Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne dell'Università degli Studi 'G. d'Annunzio . Milan 2014, ISBN 978-88-7916-666-9 , pp. 14 (Italian, ledonline.it [PDF; accessed February 20, 2017]).
  18. ↑ a b Yllber Hysi: Bregu i Poshtëm. Komuna Lukovë . Gent Grafik, Tirana 2009, ISBN 978-99956-743-3-5 , p. 58-61 .
  19. ↑ Leonidas Kallivretakis, p. 224
  20. ↑ Davide Conti: L'italiana occupazione dei Balcani. Crimini di guerra e mito della “brava gente” (1940–1943) . Odradek, Rome 2013, p. 155 (Italian).
  21. ^ Owen Pearson: Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History . Volume II: Albania in Occupation and War . Center of Albanian Studies, New York 2005, ISBN 1-84511-104-4 , pp. 153 (English, books.google.it ).