Kostar

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Kostar
Κωστάρι
Village
Kostar is located in Albania
Kostar
Kostar
Coordinates: 39°55′51″N 20°06′04″E / 39.93083°N 20.10111°E / 39.93083; 20.10111
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityFiniq
Elevation
350 m (1,150 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Kostar (Albanian definite form: Kostari; Greek: Κωστάρι; romanized: Kostári) is a village in Vlorë County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Delvinë.[2]

Name

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Kostar is from either the word кость, kosty meaning 'bone', where as a placename it referred to the bone-shaped relief of the area and possibly derived from the Bulgarian кост, kost 'bone' and the suffix -ан, -an.[3] Linguist Xhelal Ylli writes the stress on the first syllable speaks against -ан, -an formation, and furthermore, the identification is uncertain.[3] Or the toponym is from the Albanian word kosë meaning 'scythe', borrowed from Slavic and the suffix -tar where Ylli states the designation also seems more convincing from a semantical perspective.[3]

Demographics

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Kostar (Kostana) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1583 as a village in the Sanjak of Delvina with a total of 178 recorded male representatives, 150 of which were household heads and the remaining 28 being bachelors. The overwhelming majority of anthroponymy recorded in the settlement belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere (e.g., Gjon Pjetri, Gjin Pali, Dedë Bardhi, Lekë Kola), with a minority bearing general Christian personal names - some of which belonged to the Greek Orthodox sphere (e.g., Jano Dhimo, Andrea Dhima, Dhimo Ilia). Two Muslims were also recorded among the inhabitants of the village: Murat Gjini, and Hasan Murati.[4]

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 86 inhabitants in 1895.[5] The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 328 in 1992.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Location of Kostar".
  2. ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ a b c Ylli, Xhelal (1997). Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen. Teil 2: Ortsnamen [Slavic Loan Material in Albanian. Part 2: Placenames] (PDF) (in German). Verlag Otto Sagner. p. 129. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
  4. ^ Buharaja, Vexhi (1992). "Kazaja e Delvinës (Nga defteri osman i sanxhakut të Delvinës i vitit 1583)". Studime Historike (1–4): 193–4.
  5. ^ Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895" στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 287
  6. ^ 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] (PDF). In Veremis, Thanos; Kouloumpis, Thodoros; Nikolakopoulos, Ilias (eds.). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [Hellenism of Albania] (in Greek). Ekdoseis Sideris. p. 55. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.