Ostren

Ostren
Administrative Unit
Ostren
Coordinates: 41°25′N 20°28′E / 41.417°N 20.467°E / 41.417; 20.467Coordinates: 41°25′N 20°28′E / 41.417°N 20.467°E / 41.417; 20.467
Country Albania Albania
County Dibër
Municipality Bulqizë
Population (2011)
 • Administrative Unit 3,034
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
Vehicle registration BZ

Ostren (Macedonian: Острени, Ostreni) is a former municipality in the Dibër County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Bulqizë.[1] The population at the 2011 census was 3,034.[2] It consists of 13 villages.

Education

Macedonian language courses operate in Ostren to cater for the villages in which Macedonian-speakers form a majority.[3]

Historical demographics

In 1900, Vasil Kanchov traveled through the region and reported that Ostren i Madh was inhabited by 500 Slavic Muslims and 30 Slavic Christians, while Ostren i Vogël was inhabited by 400 Slavic Muslims and 78 Slavic Christians. [4] Of the surrounding villages, Lladomëricë, Radovesh and Tërbaç were entirely Slavic Muslim, Tuçep was mainly Slavic Muslim and Pasinkë was mainly Albanian Muslim[4], while the other villages of the modern municipality were located too far West to be included in Kanchov's statistics.


References

  1. ↑ Law nr. 115/2014
  2. ↑ 2011 census results
  3. ↑ Macedonians from Golo Brdo begin to learn the Macedonian language
  4. 1 2 Vasil Kanchov (1901). [Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics -- Debar kaza]. Accessed 4 July 2017
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