Southern Albania
Southern Albania
Shqipëria jugore | |
|---|---|
Region | |
| Country |  Albania |
| Area | |
| • Total | 12,989 km2 (5,015 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 920,448 |
| • Density | 71/km2 (180/sq mi) |
| NUTS code | AL03 |
| HDI (2017) | 0.787[1] high · 2nd of 3 |
Southern Albania is in blue.
Southern Albania (Albanian: Shqipëria jugore) is one of the three NUTS-2 Regions of Albania.[2] This ethnographical territory is sometimes referred to as Toskeria (Albanian: Toskëria) which also includes the formerly Albanian-inhabited territories of Greece known among Albanians as Chameria, as well as currently Albanian-inhabited territories of southwestern North Macedonia.[3]
It consists of five counties: Berat, Fier, Gjirokastër, Korçë and Vlorë. In Greece, a small part of the region, the southernmost area near the Greek border, known among Greeks as Northern Epirus.[4][5]
See also[]
- Northern Albania (Ghegeria or Gegeria)
- Central Albania
- Southern Albanian Highlands
References[]
- ^ "Sub-national HDI - Area Database - Global Data Lab". hdi.globaldatalab.org. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
- ^ "NUTS of Albania" (PDF). INSTAT. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24.
- ^ Jaroslav Krej cí; Vitězslav Velímský (1981). Ethnic And Political Nations In Europe. Taylor & Francis. p. 205. ISBN 978-0-85664-988-2. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
...the Ghegs in the north (Ghegeria) and the Tosks in the south (Toskeria)
- ^ Southern Albania. Southern Albania, 1912-1923. Stanford University Press. pp. 1–. ISBN 978-0-8047-6171-0.
- ^ Edith Pierpont Stickney (1926). Southern Albania Or. Northern Epirus in European International Affairs: 1912-1923. Stanford University Press.
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