Ostren
title: "Ostren" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["former-municipalities-in-dibër-county", "administrative-units-of-bulqizë"] topic_path: "general/former-municipalities-in-diber-county" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostren" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| type | mu |
| official_name | Ostren |
| county | Dibër |
| municipality | Bulqizë |
| coordinates | |
| population_as_of | 2011 |
| population_unit | 3034 |
| :: |
|type = mu |official_name = Ostren |image_flag = |image_shield = |image_skyline = |image_caption = |image_location = |county = Dibër |municipality = Bulqizë |leader_name = |leader_party = |coordinates = |elevation = |elevation_min = |elevation_max = |area_total = |population_as_of = 2011 |population_unit = 3034 |postal_code = |area_code = |website = Ostren () is a former municipality in the Dibër County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Bulqizë. The population at the 2011 census was 3,034. It consists of 13 villages.
Education
Macedonian language courses operate in Ostren to cater for the villages in which Macedonian-speakers form a majority.
History
Ostren is locally known for the activist Sadik Elez Koçi, who participated in different important Albanian meetings like the Congress of Manastir and created warbands during the Albanian rebellions, firstly against the Ottoman Empire and then against Bulgaria during the World War I.
In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that Ostren i Madh was inhabited by 500 Bulgarian Muslims and 30 Bulgarian Christians, while Ostren i Vogël was inhabited by 400 Bulgarian Muslims and 78 Bulgarian Christians. Of the surrounding villages, Lladomëricë, Radovesh and Tërbaç were entirely Bulgarian Muslim, Tuçep was mainly Bulgarian Muslim and Pasinkë was mainly Albanian Muslim, while the other villages of the modern municipality were located too far West to be included in Kanchov's statistics.
In 2020, an ethnic Macedonian was elected as an administrator of Ostren.
Demographics
Villages located in the Ostren administrative unit contain the following populations: Lejçan, Lladomericë and Tuçep are inhabited solely by a Torbeš population; Radovesh, Kojavec, Orzhanovë are inhabited solely by a Slavic speaking population which contain Torbeš. (Macedonian). The village of Oreshnjë is also part of the administrative unit. Haxhi Pirushi, president of the association "Prosperitet Gollo Borda" works on preserving the traditions of the Bulgarian minority in Albania. He claims that 23 out of 27 villages speak originally Bulgarian (Ostren included) or an old Bulgarian Slavic language and 17 of these villages are completely Bulgarian, while the others are mixed. On 22 October 1922 a Consulate was opened between Albania and Bulgaria about the Gollobordo issue in order to connect the minority in Albania with the Bulgarian origins
References
References
- "Law nr. 115/2014".
- [http://www.instat.gov.al/media/195811/2__diber.pdf 2011 census results] {{webarchive. link. (2016-03-03)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120323112001/http://kanal5.com.mk/(S(grkjvybutg55obz0xv2u5l55))/default.aspx?mId=37&eventId=55934 Macedonians from Golo Brdo begin to learn the Macedonian language]
- [[Elez Koçi]]
- [[Vasil Kanchov]] (1901). [http://www.promacedonia.org/vk/vk_2_41.htm Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics -- Debar kaza]. Accessed 4 July 2017
- [http://www.sdsm.org.mk/News.aspx?idNews=19340&lng=1 Честитки до Тола и Османи за нивниот избор за администратори на Острени и Требиште]
- (2008). "Die slavischen Minderheiten in Albanien (SMA): Golloborda - Herbel - Kërçishti i Epërm. Teil 2". Verlag Otto Sagner.
- Vidoeski, Božidar. (1998). "Dijalektite na makedonskiot jazik. Vol. 1". Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite.
- "Albania: Le minoranze contese".
- (19 July 2017). "A ka tipare substanciale në pasurinë etno-kulturore të "pakicave të vogla" në Shqipëri?- Golloborda".
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