Drenovë
Ndãrnova
Дреново | |
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Drenovë village
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  Drenovë
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| Coordinates: 40°35′N 20°47′E / 40.583°N 20.783°E / 40.583; 20.783 | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Korçë |
| Municipality | Korçë |
| Municipal unit | Drenovë |
| Elevation | 1,112 m (3,648 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 2,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Drenovë (Aromanian: Ndãrnova; Bulgarian and Macedonian: Дреново) is a village in the former Drenovë Municipality of the Korçë County in southeastern Albania. After the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Korçë.[1]
According to the French cartographer Alexandre Synvet, the village had 660 Greek Orthodox inhabitants in 1878.[2] Later in 1903, Heinrich Gelzer, following a visit to both Drenkowa and neighbouring Boboshticë, described the local population as a Bulgarian island in Albanian sea, remained from the new nomad migration of Slavic population after Albanian mass emigration from 14th and 15th centuries.[3]
Georgi Traychev wrote in 1911 that the village consisted of 140 households and 678 Bulgarian inhabitants.[4]
According to German linguist Gustav Weigand during the first decades of the 20th century Bulgarian populated villages Drenowo and Boboshtitsa were a Slavic linguistic island in Albania.[5] According to some ethnic Macedonian linguists Drenovë and Boboshticë were the only villages in which the Korča dialectofMacedonian was still spoken (as of 1991).[6] The dialect is classified as part of Bulgarian dialects by other authors. Some Bulgarian linguists emphasize that the reflexes of yat in this western Bulgarian dialect is wide, like it is in Eastern Bulgarian dialects.[7][8] A visit to the village in 2005 by linguists from Sofia University found just two elderly Bulgarian speakers remaining.[9]
During the late 2000s linguists Klaus Steinke and Xhelal Ylli seeking to corroborate villages cited in past literature as being Slavic speaking carried out fieldwork.[10] Drenovë was noted as having a mixed population of Orthodox Albanians and Aromanians with the last elderly speaker of the local Slavic dialect passing away in the 2000s.[10] Local Drenovë villagers stated that until the early 1960s, the village only spoke Bulgarian (Bullgarçe) until the arrival of Aromanian settlers to the settlement which resulted in ethnic and linguistic change.[10] Remaining Slavic speaking inhabitants assimilated while others moved away from the village.[10] Some families from the Orthodox village of CerjainPustec Municipality, speaking their local Slavic dialect have settled in Drenovë.[10]
Bobosnica und das benachbarte Drenkowa sind gleichsam eine bulgarische Insel in dem weiten albanesischen Meere der Ebene von Korytza; es sind Reste der alten slawischen Bevölkerung, die bei der Masseneinwanderung" der Albanesen im vierzehnten und fünfzehnten Jahrhundert sich hier mühsam am Rande des Gebirges gehalten haben.
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Subdivisions of Korçë Municipality
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Municipal Seat: Korçë | ||
| Administrative Unit of Drenovë |
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| Administrative Unit of Korçë |
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| Administrative Unit of Lekas |
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| Administrative Unit of Mollaj |
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| Administrative Unit of Qendër Bulgarec |
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| Administrative Unit of Vithkuq |
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| Administrative Unit of Voskop |
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| Administrative Unit of Voskopojë |
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