Shirq

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Shirq
Shirq (Albania)
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Coordinates: 41 ° 59 ′  N , 19 ° 27 ′  E

Basic data
Qark : Shkodra
Municipality : Shkodra
Height : 5.5  m above sea level A.

Shirq ( Albanian  also  Shirqi ) is a small village in northern Albania , which is located in Bashkia Shkodra in Qark Shkodra . Until its dissolution in 2015, Shirq was one of the eleven villages in the Komuna Dajç .

View from the west of the village with the mosque

The village is a few hundred meters east of the Buna , the outflow from Lake Skadar . It is around ten kilometers air distance to the center of Shkodra and around 14 kilometers to the Adriatic coast near Velipoja in the south. The village of Dajç, the center of the local administrative unit, is four kilometers west of the Buna. Immediately north of the village against a former floodplain and in the west dams protect the place from floods of the Buna. The village is located in the Lumi Buna-Velipoja Protected Landscape Area .

A mosque and a Roman Catholic church were built in Shirq. The school is in an open field halfway to the neighboring village of Mushan. A four-kilometer paved road connects the village via Mushan with the SH 27 , the national road from Shkodra to Velipoja.

Ruins of Shirgj Church and small Catholic cemetery on the Buna bank

On the bank of the Buna are the ruins of the church of Shirgj . The Church of St. Sergius (Kisha e Shën Sergjit e Bakut) was built in 1290 over an early Byzantine basilica by the Serbian Queen Jelena Anžujska and dedicated to Saints Sergios and Bakchos . A monastery and a small town were built around the church, because Shirq was an important trading place with a number of shops and stalls and merchants from Venice , Ragusa , Ulcinj and Bar . The river port was still accessible for large ships, while the river was no longer navigable further up. In Shirq, among other things, lead and silver from Serbian mines and goods for Kosovo were loaded and grain, Italian cloth, animals, wood and, above all, salt were traded. A village had also sprung up around the monastery and the trading post. With 48 households and around 200 inhabitants at the end of the 14th century, it was one of the largest settlements on the Buna, almost resembling a town. An important Catholic center in the 15th century, the monastery gradually lost its importance: poorly managing abbots , warlike turmoil and, most recently, the conquest of the region by the Turks in 1479 led to the decline of the monastery.

Floods threaten to flood the village and large other areas on the lower reaches of the Buna. Parts of the village are regularly under water.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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