Stegopul

Stegopull or Stegopul (Aromanian: Stãgopul) is a village in Lunxhëri, Gjirokastër County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Libohovë.[1] It is home to the Orthodox Church of St. Elijah's, also declared a national monument.[2]

Stegopull

Stãgopul
Village
Stegopull
Coordinates: 40.094°N 20.251°E / 40.094; 20.251
Country Albania
CountyGjirokastër
MunicipalityLibohovë
Municipal unitQendër Libohovë
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

In 1989 Stegopull counted 160 inhabitants most of whom Orthodox Albanians and a minority of Aromanians,[3] but in the following year the Aromanian community outnumbered the rest of the population.[4]

Notable people

References
  1. Law nr. 115/2014 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Stegopul, Albania - find factsand information on Stegopul, Albania - Places-in-the-world.com
  3. Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "Η ελληνική κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το πρίσμα της ιστορικής γεωγραφίας και δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in terms of historical geography and demography." In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]. University of Athens. p. 34. "Στα πλαίσια της επιτόπιας έρευνας που πραγματοποιήσαμε στην Αλβανία (Νοέμβριος-Δεκέμβριος 1992), μελετήσαμε το ζήτημα των εθνοπολιτισμικών ομάδων, όπως αυτές συνειδητοποιούνται σήμερα επί τόπου. [As part of the fieldwork we held in Albania (November–December 1992), we studied the issue of ethnocultural groups, as they are realized today on the spot.]"; p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί, Β Βλάχοι"; p.55. "STEGOPULLI ΣΤΕΓΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ. 160 ΑΧ + β".
  4. Gilles de Rapper. Better than Muslims, not as Good as Greeks: Emigration as experienced and imagined by the Albanian Christians of Lunxhëri The New Albanian Migration. Brighton-Portland, Sussex Academic Press (2005), p. 13: "It is true that in several villages (Selckë, Nokovë, Mingull, Stegopul), the Vlachs outnumbered the ‘villagers’ (fshatarë – this is how the Lunxhots call themselves and are called by the Vlachs) by 1990".
  5. de Haan, Franciska; Krasimira Daskalova; Anna Loutfi (2006). Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Central European University Press. pp. 475–77. ISBN 963-7326-39-1.
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