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| The patriots of Kor�a were well organized from 1906 - 1912, and they took part actively in the movement to liberate the country from Ottoman occupation Albanians managed to liberate themselves from Ottoman Turkey in 1912. In 1912, te Greece occupied under the pretention of claiming the Orthodox population as Greek. The city was occupied in December 6, 1912, and the massacres started. Many Albanians were murdered, even the Orthodox Christian Albanians. The organized units of Albanian Army crushed the Greek forces, and 85% of the Greek soliers were killed. The remaining that gave up and surrendered were allowed to leave for Greece. Nevertheless, the city was occupied again by Greek forces on July 10,1914. As World War I proceeded, the city was then taken by the Austro-Hungarians, then by the Greeks again, and finally by France, which occupied Kor�� between 1916-1920. A French Lyceum opened in Kor�a in 1917. The Albanian National Forces liberated the city. In spite of this, the French troops created additional perfect conditions for Greek Forces to enter the city. Nevertheless, the Albanian National Forces again returned the force to Greek. The Greek forces lost the battle and run backwards. The Albanian National Forces had to withdraww from other terrytories that Greece calimed. By the International Boundary Commission which affirmed the country's post-war borders, Albanian National Forces had to withdraw from those Albanian territories known as Epir or Chameria. .Nevertheless, the Greek government in spite of all loses prepared condition to call the citizens of Kor�a as Aromanian or Gypcies and other derogatory names. |
| It paid sseveral poor Albanians to declare the Republic of Kor�a in 1918. This was ment to be the ppreperation of the Republic of Pindus. Several nomadic people or Gypcies started to be called Aromanians, and they started to claim as being Vlachos. |
| The city of Kor�a was the craddle of Albanian intelectuals. Many of them were with communist ideas. The city became a center of communist activities. Albania's future dictator, Enver Hoxha, lived in the city where he was a teacher of French language. Kor�� became the nucleus of Communist movement of Enver Hoxha's Albanian Party of Labour.
Kor�� and the rest of Albania was attacked and occupied by fascist forces. Kor�a met the new occupatores in 1939. The Italian forces stationed in the city�. The national liberation forces known as National Head or Balli Komb�tar ranged consistant and continoues attacks against the Italian fascist forces. The small communist units activly participated in the war against the Italian fascists. The communist units in order to averd the National Head or Balli Komb�tar to enter in the city, managed to allow the Greek forces. While the National Head or Balli Komb�tar was battling the fascist forces, the Greek units occupied the city on November 1940. The Greek forces decleared a victory on Italians, a victory without a fight. In fact, the Greek forces entered the city as harsh and agly occupators that perpetrated massacres toward the inocent Albanian civilians. The National Head or Balli Komb�tar liberated the city in 1941, but it was short living. The German forces entered the city and remained until October 24, 1944. The communist forces were very activ, but with passive action. In 1941, the Communist Party of Albania was formed in 1941. In 1944, the joined Albanian communist forces, partizans, and National Head or Balli Komb�tar liberated the city. Nevertheless, the National Head or Balli Komb�tar was betrayed, and the member of National Head or Balli Komb�tar were killed, arrested, and massacred. |
| During the communist era, the city of Kor�a experienced the biggest developments in the history of its existence. Kor�a was turned into a big urban center. Most of the Communist Party members originated from or around Kor�a. Some of them were very close friend to the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. The communists and Enver Hoxha took the wealth and property from the rich, despite the fact that they had often fought against the Nazi and fascist occupation. Thousands of people from Kor�a were sent to concentration camps or executed for disagreeing with Hoxha's regime. Thousands of people fled to Boston, USA, joining an already existing Albanian community who had previously emigrated to the region. In 1990, the Democratic forces succedded to threw the communist regime, and establish a democratic sociaty. Kor�a was one of the six cities where the New Democratic Party won all the constituencies. Popular revolts in February 1991 ended with the fall of Hoxha's statue.
Kor�a remains the most important economic and cultural center in the region. It exhibits oriental characteristics, and traces of French civilization in its urban scheme and grand architectural planning. Kor�a today has the large 15th century mosque, the big church, and several modern government buildings. |
| The following excerpt is from N.G.L Hammond's Alexander's Campaign in Illyria:
"The district of Tren has an extraordinarily large number of fortifications. They are as follows. Kalaja e Ventrokut The River Tren which once flowed from Lake Ventrok into the Devoll has been replaced by the Ventrok Channel, which is part of the modern system of irrigation. On the north side of this Channel and a short distance before one comes to the narrow passage which is known as the Gryke e Ujkut, there is a considerable limestone hill, an offshoot of Mt Spile. The western side of the hill falls very steeply to the plain, and on the top of this western side there is a fortification wall of rough stones which is canted on the outer face only. The wall runs for some 280 m along the top and at two high points behind it there are two artificial tumuli. The side of the hill which faces the Gryke e Ujkut is less steep; between it and the Gryke e Ujkut there is a level space alongside the Ventrok Channel. Kalaja e Shpelles On the south side of the Ventrok Channel there is a limestone bluff which is partly alongside the narrow passage. Some of its cliffs overhang the passage, and at the foot of one of them, near the narrowest part of the passage, is situated the cave of Tren, which has been excavated. It was occupied first in the Balkan Eneolithic period. It and the adjacent area were 'important centres of habitation' in the Late Bronze Age with evidence of agriculture, pastoralism, fishing and hunting. It was occupied again late in the Hellenistic period and in the early medieval period. ... Half-way or so up this east side of the bluff there is wall which runs parallel to the top of the bluff for a distance of some 90 m; this at least as far as the wall had been cleared by excavation when we were there. The wall, made of rough stones, some small and others up to a metre long, is some three metres wide. Many shards of painted pottery, dated to the Early Iron Age, probably to the ninth and eighth centuries, lay on the ground inside the wall, showing that it had been an inhabited and fortified site. |
| Kalaja e Trajanit
On this surface we were able to see a series of five fortification walls, each running roughly at right-angles to the line of cliffs which overhang the narrow passage; the eastern ends of these walls are linked by a single wall. There is a small area at the highest point which is enclosed by a wall. The total length of this system of walls is some three kilometres; it provides defence in depth. Kalaja e Mokut To the south-east of Mt Trajan and above the village of Tren there is a single wall of fortification which runs up the steep hillside and crosses over the ridge. The wall is some 500 m long. It served as a defence against attack from the south or the east. This wall too is clearly seen from the plain below. Shuec Beyond the narrow passage and on the north side of Lake Ventrok some rising ground is fortified with an agger. This agger and the settlement it encloses are of the Early Iron Age. Two tumuli which date probably to the same period are visible on the flat ground near the agger. |
