Stegopul

Stegopull
Village
Stegopull
Coordinates: 40°05′38″N 20°15′04″E / 40.094°N 20.251°ECoordinates: 40°05′38″N 20°15′04″E / 40.094°N 20.251°E
Country	Albania
County	Gjirokastër
Municipality	Libohovë
Administrative Unit	Qendër Libohovë
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)

Stegopull (or Stegopul) is a village in Lunxhëri, Gjirokastër County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Libohovë.^[1] It is home to the Orthodox Church of St. Elijah's, also declared a national monument.^[2]

In 1989 Stegopull counted 160 inhabitants most of whom Orthodox Albanians and a minority of Aromanians,^[3] but in the following year the Aromanian community outnumbered the rest of the population.^[4]

Notable people

• Kostandin Boshnjaku, Albanian politician and communist.
• Kyriakos Kyritsis, Greek politician and lawyer.
• Ioannis Poutetsis, Greek revolutionary.
• Urani Rumbo, Albanian feminist^[5]

References

1. Law nr. 115/2014
2. Stegopul, Albania - find factsand information on Stegopul, Albania - Places-in-the-world.com
3. Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "Η ελληνική κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το πρίσμα της ιστορικής γεωγραφίας και δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in terms of historical geography and demography." In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]. University of Athens. p. 34. "Στα πλαίσια της επιτόπιας έρευνας που πραγματοποιήσαμε στην Αλβανία (Νοέμβριος-Δεκέμβριος 1992), μελετήσαμε το ζήτημα των εθνοπολιτισμικών ομάδων, όπως αυτές συνειδητοποιούνται σήμερα επί τόπου. [As part of the fieldwork we held in Albania (November–December 1992), we studied the issue of ethnocultural groups, as they are realized today on the spot.]"; p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί, Β Βλάχοι"; p.55. "STEGOPULLI ΣΤΕΓΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ. 160 ΑΧ + β".
4. 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. 13: "It is true that in several villages (Selckë, Nokovë, Mingull, Stegopul), the Vlachs outnumbered the ‘villagers’ (fshatarë – this is how the Lunxhots call themselves and are called by the Vlachs) by 1990".
5. de Haan, Franciska; Krasimira Daskalova; Anna Loutfi (2006). Biographical dictionary of women's movements and feminisms in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe: 19th and 20th centuries. G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series. Central European University Press. pp. 475–77. ISBN 963-7326-39-1.