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Kostar (;
romanized In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so. Methods of romanization include transliteration, for representing written text, and transcription, ...
: ''Kostári'') is a village in
Vlorë County Vlorë County (; ) is one of the 12 counties of Albania with the city of Vlorë being the county capital. The county spans and has a total population of 146,681 people as of 2023. It borders the counties of Fier and Gjirokastër, as well as th ...
, southern
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. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of
Delvinë Delvinë ( or , ) is a town and a municipality in Vlorë County, southern Albania, northeast of Sarandë. It was formed in the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Delvinë and Vergo, which became municipal u ...
. it is inhabited by
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.


Demographics

Kostar (''Kostana'') is recorded in the Ottoman ''
defter A ''defter'' was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. Etymology The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus ...
'' of 1583 as a village in the
Sanjak of Delvina The Sanjak of Delvina (, ) was one of the sanjaks of the Ottoman Empire which county town was Delvinë but during the 18th century became Gjirokastër, Albania. It was created in the mid-16th century, came under the control of the Pashalik of Y ...
with a total of 178 recorded male representatives, 150 of which were household heads and the remaining 28 being bachelors. The overwhelming majority of anthroponymy recorded in the settlement belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere (e.g., ''Gjon Pjetri'', ''Gjin Pali'', ''Dedë Bardhi'', ''Lekë Kola''), with a minority bearing general
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personal names - some of which belonged to the
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sphere (e.g., ''Jano Dhimo'', ''Andrea Dhima'', ''Dhimo Ilia''). Two
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were also recorded among the inhabitants of the village: ''Murat Gjini'', and ''Hasan Murati''. According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 86 inhabitants in 1895.Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης,
Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895
στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), ''Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα'', Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 287
The village had 328 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically
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References

{{Northern Epirus Villages in Vlorë County Greek communities in Albania