Orosh

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Orosh ( Albanian: Oroshi ) is a village and civil parish in Albania is in the district of Mirdita. The municipality is located in the mountainous northern Albania in the valley of the fan i Vogël. To her today include 16 places like the capital of Reps and Blinisht in the valley as well as various other villages, including Mashterkor and the infamous SPAC, in the mines during the communist regime, thousands of political prisoners were detained under inhuman conditions, had to do hard labor while often also were killed. The small town of Reps has arisen started when in the area with the mining of copper. The municipality has an area of 135 square miles and 1899 inhabitants ( 2011), with around one third of the families living in reps.

The historical center, which gave the name of the church today is called Grykë - Orosh. The place is remote and inaccessible in the mountains of northern Albania, in a tributary of the fan i Vogël on the northwest flank of the mountain range Malet e Shenjtit below 1413 m above sea level. A. high peak Maja e Guri i Çikit to around 600 to 700 m.

Orosh was once the center of social and spiritual life of the northern Albanian tribes and de facto capital of the Mirdita. In Orosh the one hand, the family heads of the Mirditen met for the Elders, a kind of rural community respectively Thing. Of great importance was the other hand, the Alexander monastery (Albanian: Holy Evangelist Llezhdër ). The first written record of the significant, founded by Benedictine Monastery - according to other view a Basilianerabtei - dates from the year 1313 It is probably much older. . The devolved to the Franciscan Abbey was the Turkish period of little influence. Bartl described the abbots as a better village priest. 1888, Pope Leo XIII. Orosh for Territorial Abbey in direct dependence on the Holy See. Five parishes of Mirdita, which had previously belonged to the diocese of Lezha, were slammed her. By 1894, seven more were added, so that the abbey comprised the entire region of Mirdita.

The modernized and extended under the first Bishop Prend Doçi monastery was a center with its library and the education and the Albanian national movement Rilindja. Opened here in the 19th century school was one of the first Catholic schools in the country. From the Abbey today's diocese Rrëshen emerged. Even today, most of the region's inhabitants are Catholic.

Although the northern Albanians no central rule recognized, there was also a kind of secular authority in Orosh. The Kapedan ( "Captain " ), who were each asked by the head of the Gjonmarku family, was the leader of Mirditen and final authority in decisions and issues. The rights of the privileged family and the role of Kapedan were circumscribed in the Kanun exactly. Each Mirditë who killed someone (see vendetta ), had to pay a levy to Gjonmarku. Even the Ottomans suffered by the Mirditen strong, recognized the primacy of Gjonmarku. This primitive rituals and the house Gjonmarku are the subject of Ismail Kadares novel Torn April ( " Prilli i Thyer "; Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2005, ISBN 3-596-15761-7 ).

From the house of Gjonmarku ruins are left. The Communists have destroyed it after the Second World War. The local church dates from the 16th century and was repeated by the Ottomans and destroyed by the communists in 1967. It was built after the turn of 1990 again.

So far, the municipality was mostly not easily accessible. But the new highway from Durres and Milot was opened after Kukes and Kosovo in June 2009, which runs through the valley of the fan i Vogël. Many engineering structures have been created for this purpose. Reps became a base for the construction companies. The people in the valley of the fan i Vogël hope to gain an economic boom. The district administration is also working on projects to promote tourism in sights such as Orosh. These approaches are still considered to be very timid.