Southern Albania

Southern Albania (Albanian: Shqipëria jugore) is one of the three NUTS-2 Regions of Albania.[2] This ethnographical territory is sometimes referred to as Toskeria (Albanian: Toskëria, Turkish: Toskalık) which also includes the (formerly) Albanian-inhabited territories of Greece (Chameria) and North Macedonia.[3]

Southern Albania

Shqipëria jugore
Region
Country Albania
Area
 • Total12,989 km2 (5,015 sq mi)
Population
 • Total920,448
 • Density71/km2 (180/sq mi)
NUTS codeAL03
HDI (2017)0.781[1]
high · 2nd of 3
Southern Albania is in blue.

It consists of five counties: Berat, Fier, Gjirokastër, Korçë and Vlorë. In Greece, a small part of the region, the southernmost area near the Greek border, is commonly called Northern Epirus by the Greek minority.[4][5]

See also

References
  1. "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
  2. "NUTS of Albania" (PDF). INSTAT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
  3. Jaroslav Krej cí; Vitězslav Velímský (1981). Ethnic And Political Nations In Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-85664-988-2. Retrieved 13 July 2013. ...the Ghegs in the north (Ghegeria) and the Tosks in the south (Toskeria)
  4. Southern Albania. Southern Albania, 1912-1923. Stanford University Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6171-0.
  5. Edith Pierpont Stickney (1926). Southern Albania Or. Northern Epirus in European International Affairs: 1912-1923. Stanford University Press.


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