Fterrë
Fterra ( Albanian: Fterrë, rarely Ftera / Fterë ) is a small village in south-west Albania.
Geography
Fterra is located south of Kurvelesh and 10 km north of borsh in a tributary of the Albanian Riviera. The village belongs to the municipality in the district of Saranda Lukova. It is 350 to 400 müa on the western slope of the mountain Maja e Lajthisë ( 1418 m). The mountain slopes are slightly wooded. There are numerous karst springs and some caves. Fterra located at the old, leading through the mountains of Kurvelesh road from borsh to Vlora. In the summer of 1998, the village had 168 inhabitants, living in 61 houses in three neighborhoods.
Ethnological observations
The village was located along with the on the other side of the valley from the village Çorraj Albanologist Karl Kaser, Robert Pichler and Stephanie Schwandner - Sievers In an essay published in 2002 book portrayed as an example of an Albanian mountain village that has suffered greatly from the churn. Many of the men of the village were in the 1990s worked in Greece and chatted with the funds from emigration those left behind in the home, the next still mostly operated grazing and cultivated small fields for subsistence farming. Harvested would especially olives, nuts, figs, citrus fruits and grapes. Many residents expressed towards the authors intend to leave the country and settle abroad.
History
Fterra first time was mentioned in writing in 1431 in Sûreti defter -i -i sancak Arvanid ( Defter the Albanian Sanxhaks ). At that time it consisted of twelve - affluent - families. In the Ottoman Defter the year 1583 the place Ifteran is listed with 24 extended families and in later years, with 45 large families.
Since 1916 there are in the village school in Albanian; exceptional for its time.
116 families in 1944 were counted.
Since 1997, the magazine " Fterra Jone " (Our Fterra ) is published in Tirana, reporting on culture and history.
Personalities
- Jakup Mato (1934-2005), literary critic
- Muzafer Korkuti (* 1936), archaeologist
- Sulejman Mato (* 1941), writer