Qestorat
Chiãsturat | |
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Coordinates: 40°7′3″N 20°11′59″E / 40.11750°N 20.19972°E | |
Country | Albania |
County | Gjirokastër |
Municipality | Gjirokastër |
Municipal unit | Lunxhëri |
Time zone | UTC+1 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+2 ( CEST) |
Qestorat ( Aromanian: Chiãsturat or Chiãsturata) is a community of the former Lunxhëri municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Gjirokastër. [1]
From 1874 to 1891 the village was home to the Greek Zographeion College, educational facilities that included primary and secondary male, female schools and a teacher's academy and operated with the personal costs of the local benefactor Christakis Zografos. [2] Today this institution houses the museum of Lunxhëri. [3]
Its name contains the Albanian suffix -at, widely used to form toponyms from personal names and surnames. [4]
In the Ottoman register of 1520 for the Sanjak of Avlona, Qestorat (Isharat) [5] was attested as a village in the timar under the authority of Ali from Damas. The village had a total of 71 households. The anthroponymy attested overwhelmingly belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere, characterised by personal names such as Bardh, Deda, Gjin,Gjon, Kola, Leka and others. [6]
Today the village of Qestorat is inhabited by an Aromanian majority, with a minority of Orthodox Albanians and Muslim Albanians. [7] The Aromanian presence in Qestorat dates to the communist era. [8] [9]
Qestorat
Chiãsturat | |
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Coordinates: 40°7′3″N 20°11′59″E / 40.11750°N 20.19972°E | |
Country | Albania |
County | Gjirokastër |
Municipality | Gjirokastër |
Municipal unit | Lunxhëri |
Time zone | UTC+1 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+2 ( CEST) |
Qestorat ( Aromanian: Chiãsturat or Chiãsturata) is a community of the former Lunxhëri municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Gjirokastër. [1]
From 1874 to 1891 the village was home to the Greek Zographeion College, educational facilities that included primary and secondary male, female schools and a teacher's academy and operated with the personal costs of the local benefactor Christakis Zografos. [2] Today this institution houses the museum of Lunxhëri. [3]
Its name contains the Albanian suffix -at, widely used to form toponyms from personal names and surnames. [4]
In the Ottoman register of 1520 for the Sanjak of Avlona, Qestorat (Isharat) [5] was attested as a village in the timar under the authority of Ali from Damas. The village had a total of 71 households. The anthroponymy attested overwhelmingly belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere, characterised by personal names such as Bardh, Deda, Gjin,Gjon, Kola, Leka and others. [6]
Today the village of Qestorat is inhabited by an Aromanian majority, with a minority of Orthodox Albanians and Muslim Albanians. [7] The Aromanian presence in Qestorat dates to the communist era. [8] [9]