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Colocasia is a genus [3] [4] of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to southeastern Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Some species are widely cultivated and naturalized in other tropical and subtropical regions.
Moscopole, known in Albania as being a traditionally Christian settlement, is a neighbour to various Muslim and Christian Albanian villages that surround it, although the latter ones have become "demographically depressed" due to migration.
Mësonjëtorja or the Albanian School was the first secular school in the Albanian language in Ottoman Albania. [1] It was opened in Korçë during the late Ottoman period. [2] [1] The school building serves as a museum [2] and is located on the north side of Bulevardi Shën Gjergji (St. George Boulevard).
Albania within the borders of Ottoman Empire (1905) At the beginning of the 20th century, the territory which now forms Albania was divided among the four separate vilayets (Albanian: vilajete / vilajetet) of Scutari, Janina, Manastir, and Kosovo. This helped mix Albanians with the surrounding Greeks, Serbs, and other groups.
The Albanians (Albanian: Shqiptarët) and their country Albania (Shqipëria) have been identified by many ethnonyms.The native endonym is Shqiptar.The name "Albanians" (Latin: Albanenses/Arbanenses) was used in medieval Greek and Latin documents that gradually entered European languages from which other similar derivative names emerged. [1]
Leskovik and the nearby mountain Melesin was the site of a battle in 1831.. Ottoman Albanian spahis and landowners from 19th century Leskovik owned estate properties in parts of the Balkans and in particular the Thessalian plain, until its loss to Greece in 1881 leading to local economic decline and increasing reliance on agriculture.
Municipalities are considered the basic administrative division of Albania. [1] Since its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania has reorganized internal administration 21 times. From independence until the year 2000, regional government was organized into regions (rrethë) of varying numbers, size, and importance.
The National Museum of Education (Albanian: Muzeu Kombëtar i Arsimit) is a national museum located in Korçë, Albania.The museum is set up in the building where the March 7, 1887 opened the first Albanian school, otherwise known as Mësonjëtorja.