Shishtavec
Encyclopedia
Shishtavec is a village of Kukës District
, northeastern Albania
. The village consists of 300 households with over 1,800 inhabitants of Gorani ethnicity. The village is part of the wider Gora region
. The village has a police station.
Kukës District
The District of Kukës is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It has a population 45,616 and area of 938 km². The district's only urban municipality is Kukës, which also is where the districts administrative headquarters are located...
, northeastern Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
. The village consists of 300 households with over 1,800 inhabitants of Gorani ethnicity. The village is part of the wider Gora region
Gora (region)
Gora is a geographical region in southern Serbia and northeastern Albania, inhabited by Albanians and a Gorani minority. The name "Gora" is a Slavic word for "mountain" or "forest"....
. The village has a police station.
External links
- Sistejec/Shishtavec
- RADIO GORA
- Gora Cafe
- Project Rastko - Gora, E-library of culture and tradition of Gora and Gorani people
- A Travel among Goranis (in BosnianBosnian languageBosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
) - Gorani Fear Losing Identity, Adrian Kelmendi, Institute for War And Peace Reporting, 21 February 2001
- The minorities within the minority, The Economist, 2 November 2006