Tepelena
Tepelena (alb. Tepelena) grad je u okrugu Đirokastre na jugu Albanije. Nalazi se na levoj obali reke Vojuše,[1] oko tri kilometra nizvodno od njenog spoja sa Drinom.
Tepelena alb. Tepelena | |
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Administrativni podaci | |
Država | Albanija |
Okrug | Đirokastra |
Oblast | Tepelena |
Stanovništvo | |
Stanovništvo | |
— 2011. | 4.342 |
— gustina | 10,06 st./km2 |
Geografske karakteristike | |
Koordinate | 40° 17′ 48″ S; 20° 01′ 08″ I / 40.296667° S; 20.018889° I |
Vremenska zona | UTC+1 (CET), leti UTC+2 (CEST) |
Površina | 431,50 km2 |
Poštanski broj | 6301 |
Pozivni broj | (0)814 |
Veb-sajt | |
tepelena |
Do ukidanja oblasti 2000. godine, Tepelena je bila sedište oblasti Tepelena. Njena lokacija je strateški važna i tu se nalazi srušena citadela koja se nalazi na tački 300 metara iznad reke. Ali-paša Janjinski rođen je u obližnjem selu Bečišt, a Tepelena je zajedno sa Janinom bilo Alijevo mesto stanovanja.[2] Godine 1847. britanski književnik Edvard Lir posetio je grad i primetio devastirane zgrade.
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Reference uredi
- ^ „Tepelene”. travelsradiate: travelsradiate.com. Pristupljeno 24. 1. 2011.
- ^ Tanner 2014, str. 21: "That the word 'Albania' was known at all to the English-speaking public in the early nineteenth century was largely down to Byron, who passed through on his first expedition to Greece, aged 21. After reaching Patras in September 1809, he made a detour lasting several weeks to Ioannina, which now lies in Greece but was then considered the de facto capital of south-ern Albania, the honour normally being accorded to Shkodra in the north. He also visited Tepelena, which, alongside Ioannina, was the headquarters of the notorious warlord, Ali Pasha. He then returned to Patras and continued to Athens."
Dodatna literatura uredi
- Tanner, Marcus (2014). Albania's mountain queen: Edith Durham and the Balkans. London: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781780768199.
- Blue Guide to Albania and Kosovo from Zoitsa Vasi, James Pettifer, A&C Black, London, 2001
- Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History: Volume I: Albania and King Zog, 1908-39 , Owen Pearson,I. B. Tauris,2004