Frashër

Frashër (Albanian: [ˈfɾaʃəɾ]; definite form: Frashëri; Aromanian: Farshar) is a village and a former municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Përmet.[1] The population at the 2011 census was 387.[2] The municipal unit consists of the villages Frashër, Zavalan, Ogren-Kostrec, Gostivisht, Miçan, Vërçisht, Kreshovë and Soropull.

Frashër
Municipal unit
Museum of Frashëri brothers
Museum of Frashëri brothers
Frashër is located in Albania
Frashër
Frashër
Coordinates: 40°22′N 20°26′E
Country Albania
CountyGjirokastër
MunicipalityPërmet
Population
 (2011)
 • Municipal unit
387
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Frashër is widely regarded as the 'Mecca' of Albania and is known for the disproportionate number of prominent intellectuals it has produced - especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries. [3]

Name

The name of the settlement means "ash-tree" in Albanian. The word frashër (Gheg Albanian: frashën) derives from the Proto-Albanian rendering of Latin fraxinus. The settlement represents an inhabited centre that was founded after the Roman period of the Albanian language.[4] It is said that the Frashër area has been covered with ash forests, which disappeared over time.[5] The Aromanian name of the settlement is Farshar.

History

The first documented attestation of Frashëri probably comes in the form of an Albanian merchant from Frashër who had traveled to Thessaloniki in 1330.[6]

The Frashër area in the Middle Ages was the source of several waves of migrations of Aromanians throughout the southern and central Balkans.[7] The Aromanian dialect of the area of Frashër is known as fãrsherot,[8] and today constitutes one of the main subgroups of Aromanians, divided strictly along linguistic (dialectal) differences.[9]

In 1432 the village was documented as Fracili in the Ottoman defter of the sanjak of Korçë-Përmet. The defter documented six households in Frashër at the time. The next defter to document Frashër is that of 1504. The village had 41 households, 40 of whom were Christian. The heads of households from which the major vëllazëri (brotherhoods) of Frashër would form in the 17th century include Dedë Duka, Dukë Kryeziu, Uk Deda, Gjon Deda, Martin Bardhi, Deskë Gjini, Dedë Gjini, Kozma Shurbi, Kolë Shurbi, Bendo Shurbi, Gjon Gjoni, Llazër Gjoni and others.[5]

In June 1880 the Second Assembly of Frashër was organised by the League of Prizren.[10]

Ottoman Albanian spahis and landowners from nineteenth century Frashër owned estate properties (chiftlik) in parts of the Balkans and in particular the Thessalian plain, until its loss to Greece in 1881 leading to local economic decline and increasing reliance on agriculture.[11] In 1914 the Tekke of Frashër, a 133 year-old Bektashi shrine and a center of Albanian Nationalism in the area, was destroyed by the Greek rebels of Georgios Christakis-Zografos,[12][13] but was reconstructed with the contribution of Albanian-Americans in 1923.[12]

Notable people
See also: Families of Frashër

References
  1. "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. "2011 census results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-01-31.
  3. Greece – Albania Neighbourhood Programme Archived March 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Demiraj 2006, pp. 164–165
  5. Frashëri & Frashëri 2014, p. 35.
  6. Frashëri, Kristo (2010). Frashëri, shkëlqimi dhe rrënimi i tij: vështrim i shkurtër. p. 14. ISBN 9789995688097.
  7. Ioan Caragiani (1929). Studii istorice asupra românilor din Peninsula Balcanică. Litera Internaţional. ISBN 978-973-85856-3-8.
  8. Mioara Avram; Marius Sala (15 December 2013). Les presentamos la lengua rumana. Universidad de Alicante. pp. 16–. ISBN 978-84-9717-276-9.
  9. Stoica, Daniela-Carmen (2018). "Language rights and linguistic minorities in Central and Western Balkans". Vigo, Spain: 13th Congress of Linguistics: 862–870. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. Pollo, Stefanaq (1983). Historia e Shqipërisë: Vitet 30 të shek. XIX-1912. Akademia e Shkencave e RPS të Shqipërisë, Instituti i Historisë. p. 249.
  11. Clayer, Nathalie (2007). Aux origines du nationalisme albanais: La naissance d'une nation majoritairement musulmane en Europe [The origins of Albanian nationalism: The birth of a predominantly Muslim nation in Europe]. Paris: Karthala. p. 110. ISBN 9782845868168.
  12. Teqeja e Frashërit - Vatër e zjarrtë (in Albanian), World Bektashi Headquarters Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Robert Elsie (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania, Historical Dictionaries of Europe (2 ed.), Screcrow Press, p. 40, ISBN 9780810861886, ...and in particular by burning and looting of the Albanian tekkes by Greek extremists during the Balkan War and World War I

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