A Journal of Philological Studies

Revist e studimeve filologjike



2011

ALBANIAN-GREEK ASSOCIATION OF PHILOLOGY

LIDHJA FILOLOGJIKE SHQIPTARO -GREKE


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KRYETAR NDERI / / HONORARY PRESIDENTS

GUSTAV MEYER
(1850-1900)

HOLGER PEDERSEN
(18671953)

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ARISTOTLE SPIRO
ADVISORY BOARD
PRESIDENT:
MEMBERS:

DORIS K. KYRIAZIS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

BRIAN D. JOSEPH, The Ohio State University
KONSTANTINOS G. GIAKOUMIS, University of New York, Tirana
NIKOS LIOSSIS, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
SEIT MANSAKU, Center of Albanology, Tirana
TASOS KARADIS, Salamina

KRYEREDAKTOR

ARISTOTEL SPIRO
GRUPI KSHILLIMOR
KRYETAR:
ANTAR:

DHORI Q. QIRJAZI, Universiteti i Selanikut Aristoteli

BRIAN D. JOSEPH, Universiteti Shtetror i Ohajos
KONSTANDIN GJAKUMIS, Universiteti Nju Jork i Tirans
NIKOS LIOSSIS, Universiteti i Selanikut Aristoteli
SEIT MANSAKU, Qendra Albanologjike e Shqipris
TASOS KARADIS, Salamin

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Cover photo /  / Fotografia e ballins

Codex of Metropolis of Kora and Selasphorus (17th-19th centuries) Folio 1 with identity data. AQSh. F 488, D 99, f. 2r.
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Kodiku i Mitropolis s Kors dhe Selasforit (shek. XVII-XIX). Fleta e par me t dhnat e identitetit. AQSh. F 488, D 99, fl 2r

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HARALLAMB MIONI, NARDI RAPI, MIRELA XHAFERRAJ, KONSTANTINOS
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The Editorial Board expresses its gratitude to the following persons, who collaborated in this issue:
SOKOL SHUPO, Academy of Fine Arts, Tirana
SUSAN BROWN, Fenix Anglo-Albanian School, Tirana
KATERINA KONTOUDAKI, Athens

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ANDI REMBECI
University of Tirana
THE CODEX OF THE HOLY METROPOLIS OF KORA AND
SELASPHORUS AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE
(Summary)
ome inferences from the full study of the Codex of the Holy Metropolis of
Kora and Selasphorus (AQSh, F 488 D 99) are presented in this article. The
acts that have been registered in this codex date as early as 1676 and finish in the
beginning of the 20th century. The codex is made of paper, its approximate size is
260 x 440 mm. The paper is thick without lines. The codex is bound with a
cardboard cover that has been endued with a sheet of leather without decorations.
The codex contains 190 folios. The first written folio (f 5 r) contains a note, where it
is said that the codex is a property of the Metropolis of Kora and Selasphorus, and
has been offered as a gift to this Metropolis in the year 1676 by the Archbishop of
Ohrid, Parthenios.
The codex is written in the Greek language. The codex of Kora and
Selasphorus is a precious part of those historical sources that give information
about the Christian communities during the Ottoman era, namely about the
administrative and legal organization, the economic and social realities, the
FRQFHSW RI WKH OHJDO LQVLGH WKH community and the political reality of the
orthodox Christian communities.
The acts of this codex contain important data about the mainly anarchic situation of Albania during the 17th century. The letter that the Christian community
of Kora directed to Ali Pasha of Ioannina in the year 1818, can be mentioned, or
the decisions taken in the year 1728 in Boboshtica against the arbitration of the
merchants and the landlords, and the initiatives for organization, in a time when the
Ottoman Empire was declining.
A lot of information is preserved about the organizational and functional
methods of the Elders Committee, elected on January 4 th DIWHUGLVFXVVLQJDQG
PDNLQJDQDJUHHPHQWDV ZHOODVLQIRUPDWLRQDERXWWKHGLYHUVH levels of society
through the will documents contained in the codex.
An important part of the economic life of the Christian community of Kora
is presented in the codex. Different residents of Kora, emigrants mainly from
Rumania and Egypt, or the guilds of the city would make different gifts in behalf
of the Community. Thus can be shown that Kora, like many other ottoman cities,
had oriented its economy toward guild-based production.
The codex of Kora contains much information about the educative and
cultural movements in 18th and 19th century. The first school was started in 1723
and students from the city and the villages of Kora studied there. In 1830 was
started the allilodidactic, the mutual teaching school. While in 1856 the Greek
school was rebuilt. A year latHU WKH JLUOV VFKRRO was started and during its first
year of existence 150 girls studied.
The urban and construction development of Kora is fairly represented in
the documents of the codex. Through the common contribution, the streets of the
city were covered with cobblestone (end of the 18th century), the aqueduct was
built (1869), a new cemetery was created (end of the 18 th century), the clock tower
was built (1784), etc. The construction undertaking of the church was very active
in this time and responded vividly to the civil and social development of the area.
Through the codex we can retrieve data concerning the visual arts, e.g. about the

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brothers Constantine and Athanasios Zografos, who painted not only the churches
of Kora, but even those in the surrounding cities.

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