Sanjak of Delvina
The Sanjak of Delvina was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire which county town was Delvinë but during the 18th century became Gjirokastër, Albania. It was created in the middle of 16th century.[1]
Name
During the 18th century the local Pasha moved the seat of the sanjak from Delvine to Gjirokastër. Its official named didn't change, however is was also referred as Sanjak of Gjirokastër.[2]
History
In 1744 sanjakbey of the Sanjak of Delvina was Veli Beg.[3] In 1785 Veli Beg's son, Ali Pasha, became a governor of Delvina, while in the following years the sanjak was part of the Pashalik of Yanina.[4]
During the Balkan Wars and the subsequent Ottoman defeat, the Greek Army entered the city at March 3, 1913.[5] In June 1914 the town hosted the constituent assembly of the representatives of Northern Epirus that discussed and finally approved the Protocol of Corfu, on July 26, 1914.[6] Delvino then became part of the short-lived Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus.
References
- ^ Delvina, Sherif (2006). Low Albania (Epirus) and Cham issue. Eurorilindja. "Afterwards, when the sandjak of Delvina has been created (about the middle of XVI century),"
- ^ Mikropoulos, 2008: 330-331
- ^ Društvo istoričara Srbije (1969) (in Serbian). Iz istorije Albanaca (From the history of Albanians). Zavod za izdavanje udžbenika SR Srbije. p. 78. http://books.google.com/books?ei=aIpwTqupBMiN-wbM_LS1CQ&ct=result&id=HVE8AAAAMAAJ&dq=%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%9F%D0%B0%D0%BA+%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%82&q=%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8+%D0%A2%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5#search_anchor. Retrieved 14 September 2011. "родио се 1744. године у околини Тепелене, од оца Вели-бега, госпо- дара Тепелене, односно управљача делвинског санџака. (He was born in 1744 and his father was lord of Tepelene and lord of the Sanjak of Delvina)"
- ^ Mikropoulos, 2008: 334, 337
- ^ Veremis, John S. Koliopoulos & Thanos M. (2010). Modern Greece : a history since 1821 (1. publ. ed.). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 73. ISBN 9781405186810. http://books.google.com/books?hl=el&id=qumwwKbI0TQC&q=delvino#v=snippet&q=delvino&f=false.
- ^ Kondis Basil. Greece and Albania, 1908-1914. Institute for Balkan Studies, 1976, p. 132: "Throughout the period of the constituent assembly which convoked at Delvino to discuss the Corfu agreement... the constituent assembly approved the agreement on July 26, 1914."
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