Omaraj
Omaraj | |
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.svg)  Omaraj | |
| Coordinates: 42°8′46″N 19°29′16″E / 42.14611°N 19.48778°E | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Shkodër |
| Municipality | Malësi e Madhe |
| Municipal unit | Gruemirë |
| Time zone | UTC 1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC 2 (CEST) |
Omaraj (also known as Omarë, Serbian: Омара) is a settlement in the former Gruemirë municipality in Shkodër County, northern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Malësi e Madhe.[2]
Demographics
[edit]During the early 2010s, the linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli, seeking to corroborate villages cited in past literature as being Slavic-speaking, carried out fieldwork in settlements of the area. Omaraj in the Shkodër area is one of a number of villages with a Slavophone population that speaks a Montenegrin dialect.[3] In the village of Omaraj, only two Orthodox Montenegrin families remain.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Location of Omaraj". Retrieved 26 August 2010.
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6374–6375. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Steinke, Klaus; Ylli, Xhelal (2013). Die slavischen Minderheiten in Albanien (SMA). 4. Teil: Vraka - Borakaj. Munich: Verlag Otto Sagner. ISBN 9783866883635. p. 9. "Am östlichen Ufer des Shkodrasees gibt es heute auf dem Gebiet von Vraka vier Dörfer, in denen ein Teil der Bewohner eine montenegrinische Mundart spricht. Es handelt sich dabei um die Ortschaften Boriçi i Madh (Borić Veli), Boriçi i Vogël (Borić Mali/Borić Stari/Borić Vezirov), Gril (Grilj) und Omaraj (Omara), die verwaltungstechnisch Teil der Gemeinde Gruemira in der Region Malësia e Madhe sind. Ferner zählen zu dieser Gruppe noch die Dörfer Shtoji i Ri und Shtoji i Vjetër in der Gemeinde Rrethinat und weiter nordwestlich von Koplik das Dorf Kamica (Kamenica), das zur Gemeinde Qendër in der Region Malësia e Madhe gehört. Desgleichen wohnen vereinzelt in der Stadt sowie im Kreis Shkodra weitere Sprecher der montenegrinischen Mundart. Nach ihrer Konfession unterscheidet man zwei Gruppen, d.h. orthodoxe mid muslimische Slavophone. Die erste, kleinere Gruppe wohnt in Boriçi i Vogël, Gril, Omaraj und Kamica, die zweite, größere Gruppe in Boriçi i Madh und in Shtoj."
- ^ Steinke & Ylli 2013, p. 126. "Omaraj - Omara. In Omaraj wohnen nur noch zwei orthodoxe Familien der Minderheit."
Subdivisions of Malësi e Madhe municipality | ||
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Municipal seat: Koplik | ||
| Administrative unit of Gruemirë |  | |
| Administrative unit of Kastrat | ||
| Administrative unit of Kelmend | ||
| Administrative unit of Koplik | ||
| Administrative unit of Qendër | ||
| Administrative unit of Shkrel | ||
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