Pult (Albania)
Pult ( Albanian also Pulti ; Latin Polatum ; Serbian - Cyrillic Пилот ) is a landscape in northern Albania . It covers a mountainous region northeast of Shkodra in the Albanian Alps .
Pult adjoins the Malësia e Madhe to the south and forms the southwestern part of the Albanian Alps. The main settlement area of the landscape is the valley of the river Kir with the villages Prekal , Drisht (see also Drisht Castle ), Pog , Bruçaj , Kir , Plan and Xhan . The latter five formed the Komuna Pult with 1529 inhabitants until 2015 (2011); the town hall was in Pog. Around the old bridge of Mes (alb. Ura e Mesit ) the area of Pult merges into the soft image of the city of Shkodra .
history
Pult has been settled since ancient times and, as Polatum, was one of the Illyrian civitates (tribal regions) in the Praevalitana province . A diocese was founded in the 9th century, but with its last 18 parishes it encompassed a much larger area than what is known today as the landscape. In the Middle Ages, Polatum was used to designate a much larger ruling district, which also included the flatlands to the west. For a long time Pult belonged to the Slavic dominated states Doclea and Zeta . From the mid-14th century until 1420, the area was under the rule of Balšić (Alb. Balsha or Balshaj ), which after the fall of the Serbian Empire around the statehood Scutari had founded. Pult passed from the Balšići to the Dukagjin family, whose last prince Lekë Dukagjini owned the area until his death in 1481. Because of this, the region is now counted as part of the Dukagjin landscape , which is named after the principality of this Albanian noble family that fell in the 15th century.
As early as the Middle Ages, Pult was known as a purely Albanian settlement area, while in the nearby coastal towns mainly Romans lived and many Slavs also settled in the plains on Lake Skadar. While the Orthodox Church was able to significantly expand its influence in the cities and plains under Byzantine and Serbian sovereignty, Pult always remained Catholic in the mountains. This was also the case during the Ottoman rule, which began at the end of the 15th century.
present
Today the beautiful landscape, but not particularly suitable for agriculture, is only sparsely populated. Most of the residents have migrated to the cities in the past two decades. Some of the remaining inhabitants are trying to find another source of income in tourism alongside agriculture. Mountain hikes, climbing tours and rafting on the Kir are offered.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Oliver Jens Schmitt: The Venetian Albania (1392 - 1479). Southeast European work. Bd. 110. München 2001. ISBN 3-486-56569-9 , pp. 51-52
- ↑ Anonymous around 1332: Directorium ad passagium faciendum . In: Robert Elsie (Ed.): Early Albania, a Reader of Historical Texts, 11th - 17th Centuries . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-447-04783-6 , p. 28–30 ( excerpt online - English translation). Excerpt online ( memento of the original from March 12, 2014 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.
- ↑ Schmitt, The Venetian Albania. Pp. 87-88
Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′ N , 19 ° 40 ′ E