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Gora (region)

Gora
Гора
Geographical and historical region
Gora (green) and adjacent area in Polog (yellow) that is culturally and linguistically associated with the core region
Gora (green) and adjacent area in Polog (yellow) that is culturally and linguistically associated with the core region
Countries
Area
 • Estimate500 km2 (200 sq mi)
Population
[citation needed]
 • Estimate 
(2011)
40,000
 • Density80/km2 (200/sq mi)
Former Gora municipality in Kosovo, marked in blue

Gora (Cyrillic: Гора; Albanian: Gorë) is a geographical region in southern Kosovo and northeastern Albania, primarily inhabited by the Gorani people.[1][2] Due to geopolitical circumstances, some of the local Gorani people have over time also self declared themselves as Albanians, Macedonians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Turks and Muslims by ethnicity.[3][4]

Gorani inhabited settlements in Albania and Kosovo are synonymous with the geographical outline of Gora as a region.[1] Between 1992 and 1999, the Gora region in Kosovo was designated as a municipality, and its population was 17,574 people according to the 1991 census. Today in Kosovo, the region is part of Dragash municipality that includes the Albanian inhabited Opoja region.[1][5] In Albania, the Gora region is located in Kukës County[1] and parts of it are subdivided in the Shishtavec and Zapod territorial units. Nearby, two Gorani settlements geographically located in the Polog region[6][7] of North Macedonia are ethnographically and linguistically associated with the Gora region.

Gora is bordered to the west and northwest by the region of Lumë, which is mostly within Albania and a small portion in Kosovo.[8] In the northeast it is bordered by the regions of Opoja, to the east by Polog and to the south by Upper Reka.

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  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Schmidinger65 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Albania's Gora Minority Takes Bulgarian Route to EU: Balkan Insight". www.balkaninsight.com. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  4. ^ Bardhoshi, Nebi (2016). "Small Numbers, Big issues: The Border areas as Social Arena of Legal Systems". In Schüler, Sonja (ed.). Exchange, Dialogue, New Divisions?: Ethnic Groups and Political Cultures in Eastern Europe. LIT Verlag. p. 85. ISBN 9783643802095.
  5. ^ Krasniqi, Elife (2016). "Social Change in Relation to Patriarchy after 1999 war in Opoja, Kosovo". In Roth, Klaus; Kartari, Asker (eds.). Culture of Crisis in Southeast Europe, Part I: Crises Related to Migration, Transformation, Politics, Religion, and Labour. LIT Verlag. p. 191. ISBN 9783643907639.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Srpskogeografsko107 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Koleva351 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  8. ^ Fejzulla Gjabri (Department of Culture of Albania), Information about the Heroic Epos in the Province of Luma
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