Kostar

Village in Vlorë, Albania
Kostar
Κωστάρι
Village
39°55′51″N 20°06′04″E / 39.93083°N 20.10111°E / 39.93083; 20.10111
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityFiniq
Elevation
350 m (1,150 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Kostar (Greek: Κωστάρι; romanized: Kostári) is a village in Vlorë County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Delvinë.[2] it is inhabited by Greeks.[3]

Demographics

Kostar (Kostana) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1583 as a village in the Sanjak of Delvina with a total of 178 recorded male representatives, 150 of which were household heads and the remaining 28 being bachelors. The overwhelming majority of anthroponymy recorded in the settlement belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere (e.g., Gjon Pjetri, Gjin Pali, Dedë Bardhi, Lekë Kola), with a minority bearing general Christian personal names - some of which belonged to the Greek Orthodox sphere (e.g., Jano Dhimo, Andrea Dhima, Dhimo Ilia). Two Muslims were also recorded among the inhabitants of the village: Murat Gjini, and Hasan Murati.[4]

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 86 inhabitants in 1895.[5] The village had 328 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Location of Kostar".
  2. ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "Η Ελληνική Κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το Πρίσμα της Ιστορικής Γεωγραφίας και Δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in Terms of Historical Geography and Demography]" (in Greek). Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. p. 55. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. ^ Buharaja, Vexhi (1992). "Kazaja e Delvinës (Nga defteri osman i sanxhakut të Delvinës i vitit 1583)". Studime Historike (1–4): 193–4.
  5. ^ Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895" στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 287
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