Stegopull
Stegopul or Stegopull (Aromanian: Stãgopul) is a village in Lunxhëri, Gjirokastër County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality Libohovë. It is home to the Orthodox Church of St. Elijah's, also declared a national monument.
In 1989, Stegopull counted 160 inhabitants, most of whom Orthodox Albanians and a minority of Aromanians, but in the following year, the Aromanian community outnumbered the rest of the population.
Alternative spellings for Stegopul can be found in various languages, such as Stegopulli, Shtegopol, Stregopuli, Stegopull, Stegopol, Stegopoli and Stegopuli.
Notable people
- Kostandin Boshnjaku (1888–1953), Albanian politician and communist
- Kyriakos Kyritsis, Greek lawyer and politician
- Ioannis Poutetsis (1878–1912), Greek revolutionary
- Urani Rumbo (1895–1936), Albanian writer
References
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
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- ^ Gilles de Rapper. Better than Muslims, not as Good as Greeks: Emigration as experienced and imagined by the Albanian Christians of Lunxhëri The New Albanian Migration. Brighton-Portland, Sussex Academic Press (2005), p. 13: "It is true that in several villages (Selckë, Nokovë, Mingull, Stegopul), the Vlachs outnumbered the ‘villagers’ (fshatarë – this is how the Lunxhots call themselves and are called by the Vlachs) by 1990".
- ^ "Stegopul populated place, Gjirokastër, Albania". al.geoview.info. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
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