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express their pride to be
Albanian by asserting that they are the truest Albanians of the area, as opposed to on one hand to members of the Greek and Aromanian ethnic minorities who are of non-Albanian ethnicity and suspicious loyalties, and on the other to the ethnically Albanian Muslim migrants from Kurvelesh, who are asserted to have abandoned their Orthodox faith and therefore become "Turks", as opposed to the Albanian Orthodox who are said to have better preserved their Albanian culture. Lunxhëria villages of the interwar period were small and compact such as Saraqinisht and Stegopull containing some 50 houses each while the people of the region were all Albanian Orthodox Christians except in Erind which was inhabited by both Muslims and Christians. British archaeologist Clarke visited in 1924 and noted that in Saraqinisht and Labove there was a certain amount of pro-Greek feeling. During the
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lived in
Istanbul or in the United States. A villager from Këllëz thus recalls how Iorgos (George) Papadopoulos (who was to lead the 1974 coup) stayed six months in his house from June to December 1940 (sic). ‘Italian soldiers did not know to fight. The Greeks were cleverer. Greeks were welcomed here, even though they pretended it was their own country’.
1094:"Ιδιαίτερη εντύπωση προκαλεί η ισχυρή αντίσταση που προέβαλαν ορισμένες περιοχές στο έντονο κύμα εξισλαμισμών του 18ου αιώνα, όπως οι περιοχές της Ζαγοριάς (όπου υπάγεται η Κόνσκα και η Σέπερη), της Ρίζας (όπου υπάγεται το Χόρμοβο και η Πρεμετή) και της Λιντζουριάς, μολονότι κατοικούνταν από αλβανόφωνους χριστιανούς."
361:(religion) and are reluctant to marry, or to let their children marry, Aromanians. Almost all of them come ultimately in Ottoman times from the village of Kefalovrisso (known as Mexhidë in Albanian), now located in Northwest Greece. In modern times, Aromanians were the first group in Lunxhëria to emigrate to Greece.
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in 1913, and many families left the area, and
Albania,during and after the First World War, to avoid becoming citizens of the new Albanian state. These people are called in Albanian propaganda filogrek and seem to have been powerful enough at some times to force pro-Albanian families to leave Lunxhëri...
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p.10 On the other hand were those who insisted on the
Greekness of the Lunxhots and were opposed to the development of an Albanian national identity among the Christians. We recall here the names of the famous Christodoulos (1820-1898) and Jorgos (1863-1920) Zografos – the latter having been the head
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p.10 These fluid identities were to be crystallised at the time of the creation of the
Albanian state (1913) and during the process of Albanisation that followed. Lunxhëri was actually included in the definition of Northern Epirus as a land of Hellenism that should have been given to the Greek state
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De Rapper, Gilles. "Better than
Muslims, not as good as Greeks", page 11: "He noted that then as now he was crossing a linguistic border from an area where Greek is spoken to one where it was merely understood. But he also said that there was little difference between the architecture of Labovë and
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Lunxherië the villages are more compact but smaller, Shtegopul and Saraginishtë, for instance, having only fifty houses each; the people of Llunxherië are all Albanian Orthodox Christians, except those of Erind, who are partly Christian and partly Mohammedan, and the men, but not the women, know
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De Rapper, Gilles. "Better than
Muslims, not as good as Greeks", page 12: "not only are the Lunxhots ethnically and nationally Albanian, as opposed to the Greeks and Vlachs, they are even supposed to be the only true Albanians of the area, as opposed to the Muslims of Labëria who are seen as having
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De Rapper, Gilles. "Better than
Muslims, not as good as Greeks", page 9: "By the beginning of the nineteenth century and later on, the British, French and Austrian travellers who visited Lunxhëri, most of them arriving from Ioannina, described the Lunxhots as Albanian-speaking Orthodox Christians,
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Muslims, not as good as Greeks" page 9-10: "The Vlachs are often said by the Lunxhots to be of another fe, although they are both Orthodox Christians and go to the same churches. The feeling of otherness that characterises so strongly the relation between Vlachs and
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After Lunxhëria's incorporation into the Albanian state and the departure or marginalization of many of the strongest pro-Greek ("filogrek") families, a strong Albanian national feeling paired with a strong regional identity took hold. The French anthropologist Gilles De Rapper found that Lunxhots
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De Rapper, 2008, p. 16: Greek soldiers and officers seem to have been welcome in the Lunxhots’ houses during the counter-offensive against the Italian invasion army in 1940-41, and people recall today how well the Greek officers were treated by the Greek-speaking and aristocratic Lunxhots who had
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Today the population of Lunxhëri can be classified in three main groups:"While Lunxhëri practiced (as did many other regions) a high level of (territorial) endogamy, marriage alliances started to occur between Christians Lunxhots and members of the Greek minority of the districts of Gjirokastër
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In the early 19th century Austrian, British and French travelers coming from Ioannina to Lunxhëria felt that they were entering in another country that differed from adjacent Greek regions in local customs and way of life while noting that the region was inhabited by Albanian-speaking Orthodox
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and had the feeling that, starting north of Delvinaki, they were entering another country, although the political border did not exist at the time. Greek was not spoken as it was further south; there was a change in the way of life and manners of the peasants."
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Gjithashtu, Vangjel Zhapa financoi për përgatitjen e hierarkisë fetare, të klerikëve e priftërinjve që shërbenin në kisha e manastire, nga ku kanë përfituar familjet,Haxhiu, Toti, Papa Kosta, Papa Leonidha Duka si dhe At Gjergj Suli nga fshati Lekel etj.
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many families both of pro-Albanian and pro-Greek left the area, with the pro-Albanian families being forced to leave at certain times by powerful pro-Greek families. An Aromanian minority settled in the region as part of the resettlement policies of the
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had 1941 inhabitants, of whom 58.01% declared as Albanians, 3.55% as Greeks, and 2.42% as Aromanians. The rest of the population did not declare any ethnicity while the procedure was affected by boycott by the Greek minority.
250:. Although most of the locals that migrated to other regions declared themselves as Greeks, at the same time, the majority of the population in the end of the 19th century spoke Albanian. In the same context, people like
51:, as are neighboring regions to the east such as Dangëllia and Kolonja, rather than Lab; some researchers instead prefer to view Lunxhëria as a "transitory region" that is linguistically part of Labëria (using the
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Lunxhots is thus expressed in term of religious communities; at the same time, the definition of Vlachs as another fe justifies the reluctance for intermarriage with them as well as a lack of trust and sympathy."
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of the Government of Autonomous Northern Epirus in Gjirokastër during the First World War – and of Vangelis Zappas (or Vangjel Zhapa, 1800-1865), all of them from Lunxhëri (Qestorat and Labovë e Zhapës). ...
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river as the boundary) but culturally part of Toskëria (using the Drino as the boundary). Lunxhëria is predominantly inhabited by Albanians, but also has Greek and Aromanian minorities.
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994:"The monasteries of Jorgucat and Vanishte in Dropull and of Spelaio in Lunxheri as monuments and institutions during the Ottoman period in Albania (16th-19th centuries)"
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of the villages he had previously visited, and that both in Labovë and farther north at Saraganishtë there was a certain amount of pro-Greek feeling Winnifrith 2002. "
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also created a buffer zone between Lunxhëria and the nearby recognized Greek minority zone of Dropull with the settlement of Albanian Muslim communities in fear of
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King, Russell; Mai, Nicola; Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie (February 1, 2005).
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How the first Governor of Bank of Albania, Einstein's friend, got persecuted
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abandoned their religion to become ‘Turks’ and, in so doing, have betrayed."
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Si u persekutua drejtori i parë i Bankës pas '45-s, miku i Ajnshtajnit
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Bijë të Lunxhërisë për arsimin shqiptar : Pandeli dhe Koto Sotiri
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Who has done more philanthropy than Vangjel and Kostandin Zhapa?
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municipality, Labovë e Kryqit which administratively belongs to
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Nga vizita e Kryeministrit Fatos Nano ne Qarkun e Gjirokastres
295:(1945-1991). During World War II and the developments of the
503:(1878–1912), revolutionary, leader of Greek guerrilla group.
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KUSH KA BËRË MË SHUMË TË MIRA SE VANGJEL E KOSTANDIN ZHAPA?
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Enkelejda Riza - Albanian Telegraphic Agency (1999-01-23),
1082:"Επιγραφικές μαρτυρίες σε λειψανοθήκη από τη Βόρεια Ήπειρο"
677:, from Lekël, Orthodox cleric and martyr, collaborator of
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and director of the first Albanian school of modern times.
487:, Albanian politician and former Prime Minister of Albania
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Lunxhëria : mjedisi, banorët, ekonomia, vendbanimet
1502:(in Albanian), Albanian Council of Ministers, 2003-05-17
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Lunxhëri: environment, population, economy, settlements
668:, politician, member of Albanian parliament, friend of
533:(1895–1936), Albanian feminist, teacher and playwright.
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the Lunxhots, who call themselves "ethnic Lunxhots" or
184:(Vlach) population is exempted from military service.
582:(1863–1920), son of the above mentioned. Head of the
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699:; educated in Vienna, he was among those treating
1278:(YouTube) (in Albanian). Top-Channel. 8 July 2013
636:, Albanian politician and former Prime Minister.
242:, giving immense contributions to the history of
1129:. Sussex Academic Press. p. 175; 180; 190.
1086:Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας
1042:Δελτίον της Χριστιανικής Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας
551:Society for the Publication of Albanian Writings
192:In 1571 a short lived rebellion broke out under
1692:(in Greek). Athens: Έκδοσις Ενώσεως Λιούντζης.
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1178:Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière (1967).
364:the Muslim-background Albanian settlers from
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1373:(in Albanian). Shtëpia Botuese "8 Nëntori".
341:the Aromanian settlers, who call themselves
1736:] (in Albanian). Gjirokaster: Argjiro.
1184:. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 28–29.
376:According to the 2011 Albanian census, the
258:were pro-Albanian and part of the elite of
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1275:Lunxheria e braktisur (Abandoned Lunxheri)
968:. Cambridge University Press. p. 88.
654:, publicist of 19th century, publisher of
199:At 1630-1653 the Aromanian inhabitants of
115:. The region has some rivers and streams:
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829:(in Albanian), Tribuna, archived from
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276:Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus
1256:(in Albanian), monitor.al, 2012-03-27
907:Antigonea Archaeological Park website
7:
1558:] (in Albanian), Gazeta Metropol
604:Albanian Declaration of Independence
493:, first Albanian ambassador to the
1726:Dedi, Kleanth; Koçi, Mina (2006).
419:Orthodox church in Labova e Kryqit
349:, and are considered as newcomers
165:as well the ancient Greek city of
83:west. It includes the villages of
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1661:Women's feast and bridal costume.
992:Konstantinos., Giakoumis (2002).
918:Konstantinos., Giakoumis (2002).
111:which administratively belong to
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1635:Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece
2142:Geography of Gjirokastër County
1330:Ethnic composition: 2011 census
811:Ethnic composition: 2011 census
771:"Statistical Atlas of Albania"
630:, entrepreneur and politician.
1:
2137:Albanian ethnographic regions
1452:] (in Albanian). Tirana.
1419:Miltiadh Muci (August 2009),
1398:. I. B. Tauris. p. 336.
880:Winnifrith, Tom, ed. (1992).
648:, Albanian communist activist
477:, from Nokovë, the father of
320:intermarried among themselves
1431:, "Odrie-Golik" Organization
1392:Owen Pearson (Apr 3, 2007).
580:Georgios Christakis-Zografos
304:People's Republic of Albania
79:east, and the valley of the
592:a revolutionary during the
445:Albanian national awakening
435:Albanian national awakening
334:and are called "villagers"
149:Ancient and medieval period
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1663:Folklore Museum of Kozani.
1126:The New Albanian Migration
1080:Gerogiorgi, Sofia (2002).
856:The New Albanian Migration
443:, a representative of the
433:, a representative of the
302:State policies during the
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1773:Bërxholi, Arqile (2007).
962:Nicol, Donald M. (1984).
594:Greek War of Independence
463:lawyer and member of the
412:which is mostly Muslim.
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1697:Ramazan Bogdani (1995).
1686:Λιλλής, Γιάννης (1947).
1674:"Odria" newspaper online
590:Konstantinos Lagoumitzis
523:, chief of artillery of
469:Argyrokastron Prefecture
400:religion majority, with
883:Perspectives on Albania
798:www.pop-stat.mashke.org
457:poet, born in Stegopul.
353:by the Lunxhots, after
1017:Cite journal requires
943:Cite journal requires
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2157:Aromanians in Albania
664:, former Governor of
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396:The population is of
378:Lunxhëri municipality
85:Lunxhëri municipality
65:Lunxhëri municipality
35:) is a region in the
1680:Ethnocultural books
1655:Traditional costumes
1442:Kraja, Musa (2002).
1367:Thanas Nano (1979).
1343:"Thanas (Nase) Jani"
775:www.instatgis.gov.al
642:, Albanian communist
467:(1915–1917) for the
384:The same census for
208:conversions to Islam
75:south, the crest of
1699:Vallet e Lunxhërisë
724:Zographeion College
697:Prince Mavrocordato
662:Kostandin Boshnjaku
622:Konstantinos Zappas
570:Christakis Zografos
264:Christakis Zografos
136:, and the river of
1834:Gjirokastër County
1703:Dances of Lunxhëri
1055:10.12681/dchae.563
719:Tourism in Albania
685:, executed by the
658:newspaper in 1861.
565:Ali Pasha Tepelena
525:Ali Pasha Tepelena
509:, former Albanian
441:Kostandin Manxhari
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206:During the era of
37:Gjirokastër County
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1668:"Odria" newspaper
1532:on March 25, 2013
1317:De Rapper, page 5
501:Ioannis Poutetsis
461:Kyriakos Kyritsis
404:families being a
297:Greco-Italian War
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