Dukat, Albania

Dukat is a community of the Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Vlorë.[1]

Dukat
Village
Dukat
Coordinates: 40°15′2″N 19°34′2″E
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityVlorë
Municipal unitOrikum
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

History

World War II

During World War II Dukat was part of the battlefield of the battle of Gjorm, where Albanian resistance units defeated and routed the troops of the Kingdom of Italy.[2]

Demographics

Dukat is mixed, inhabited 73% by Orthodox Christians and 21% by Muslims and the whole village speaks Albanian.[3] It is home to the Church of Marmiroi, a medieval church.

References
  1. "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
  2. Pearson, Owen (2006). Albania in Occupation and War: From Fascism to Communism 1940-1945. I.B.Tauris. p. 230. ISBN 1-84511-104-4.
  3. Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière (1967). Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 126.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) "Dukat, which is majority Christian and minority Mohammedan, but entirely Albanian in speech"

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