Gora (region)

Gora

Гора
Gora Гора
Geographical and historical region
	Gora (green) and adjacent area in Polog (yellow) that is culturally and linguistically associated with the core region
Countries	Albania; Kosovo; North Macedonia;
Area
• Estimate	500 km2 (200 sq mi)
Population [citation needed]
• Estimate (2011)	40,000
• Density	80/km2 (200/sq mi)

Gora (Cyrillic: Гора; Albanian: Gorë) is a geographical region in southern Kosovo and northeastern Albania, primarily inhabited by the Gorani people.^[1]^[2] Due to geopolitical circumstances, some of the local Gorani people have over time also self declared themselves as Albanians, Macedonians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Serbs, Turks and Muslims by ethnicity.^[3]^[4]

Gorani inhabited settlements in Albania and Kosovo are synonymous with the geographical outline of Gora as a region.^[1] Between 1992 and 1999, the Gora region in Kosovo was designated as a municipality, and its population was 17,574 people according to the 1991 census. Today in Kosovo, the region is part of Dragash municipality that includes the Albanian inhabited Opoja region.^[1]^[5] In Albania, the Gora region is located in Kukës County^[1] and parts of it are subdivided in the Shishtavec and Zapod territorial units. Nearby, two Gorani settlements geographically located in the Polog region^[6]^[7] of North Macedonia are ethnographically and linguistically associated with the Gora region.

Gora is bordered to the west and northwest by the region of Lumë, which is mostly within Albania and a small portion in Kosovo.^[8] In the northeast it is bordered by the regions of Opoja, to the east by Polog and to the south by Upper Reka.

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^ "Albania's Gora Minority Takes Bulgarian Route to EU: Balkan Insight". www.balkaninsight.com. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
^ Bardhoshi, Nebi (2016). "Small Numbers, Big issues: The Border areas as Social Arena of Legal Systems". In Schüler, Sonja (ed.). Exchange, Dialogue, New Divisions?: Ethnic Groups and Political Cultures in Eastern Europe. LIT Verlag. p. 85. ISBN 9783643802095.
^ Krasniqi, Elife (2016). "Social Change in Relation to Patriarchy after 1999 war in Opoja, Kosovo". In Roth, Klaus; Kartari, Asker (eds.). Culture of Crisis in Southeast Europe, Part I: Crises Related to Migration, Transformation, Politics, Religion, and Labour. LIT Verlag. p. 191. ISBN 9783643907639.
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^ Fejzulla Gjabri (Department of Culture of Albania), Information about the Heroic Epos in the Province of Luma

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[3] "Albania's Gora Minority Takes Bulgarian Route to EU: Balkan Insight". www.balkaninsight.com. 18 April 2016. Retrieved 15 September 2017.

[Bardhoshi85-4] Bardhoshi, Nebi (2016). "Small Numbers, Big issues: The Border areas as Social Arena of Legal Systems". In Schüler, Sonja (ed.). Exchange, Dialogue, New Divisions?: Ethnic Groups and Political Cultures in Eastern Europe. LIT Verlag. p. 85. ISBN 9783643802095.

[Krasniqi191-5] Krasniqi, Elife (2016). "Social Change in Relation to Patriarchy after 1999 war in Opoja, Kosovo". In Roth, Klaus; Kartari, Asker (eds.). Culture of Crisis in Southeast Europe, Part I: Crises Related to Migration, Transformation, Politics, Religion, and Labour. LIT Verlag. p. 191. ISBN 9783643907639.

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[Gjabri-8] Fejzulla Gjabri (Department of Culture of Albania), Information about the Heroic Epos in the Province of Luma

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