Qestorat

Qestorat
Village

Zographeion college facilities in Qestorat (1881)
Qestorat
Coordinates: 40°7′3″N 20°11′59″E / 40.11750°N 20.19972°E / 40.11750; 20.19972Coordinates: 40°7′3″N 20°11′59″E / 40.11750°N 20.19972°E / 40.11750; 20.19972
Country Albania Albania
County Gjirokastër
Municipality Gjirokastër
Administrative Unit Lunxhëri
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)

Qestorat is a community of the former Lunxhëri municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Gjirokastër.[1]

From 1874 to 1891 the village was home to the Zographeion College, educational facilities that included primary and secondary male, female schools and a teacher's academy and operated with the personal costs of the local benefactor Christakis Zografos.[2] Today this institution houses the museum of Lunxhëri.[3]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ Law nr. 115/2014
  2. ↑ Sakellariou M. V.. Epirus, 4000 years of Greek history and civilization Ekdotikē Athēnōn, 1997. ISBN 978-960-213-371-2, p. 308
  3. ↑ Gilles de Rapper. Better than Muslims, not as Good as Greeks: Emigration as experienced and imagined by the Albanian Christians of Lunxhëri The New Albanian Migration. Brighton-Portland, Sussex Academic Press (2005), p. 15
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