The four vilayet:-Shkoder; Kosova; Janine;and Manastir
The treaty of Berlin, after the Balkan wars, gave most
of Kosova to Serbia and parts of North Kosova to Montenegro, joining the two
(Serbia and Montenegro) directly.
Montenegro also got a fair bit of land at its southern
border, along the Podogorica, Tivar (Bar (Antivari), Ulqin and Lake Shkodar)
region.
Thus Serbia nearly doubled its size and population,
while Montenegro grew by over 50% in area.
Greece took a fair hunk of the Janina vilayet.
All this effectively cut albanian territory
in half.
Source of 1878 map the Frosina Information Network
Webpage- www.frosina.org
Email- vanchristo@frosina.org
To acknowledge our Albanian heritage we have included an overview of the Shiptar and Junakot Dance.
1. Shiptar Dance
a)
Along the frontier district where Montenegro joins Albania, numerous traditional
dances survive among people of Albanian extraction.
The Shiptar dance is performed by a young couple, adults
watching cross-legged in a circle. The accompaniment comes from a single
drum (tapane). The male dancer leads, the drummer (tapanar) regulates
the beat according to the dancer's steps, the man is wearing a cap similar
to the drummer and has a long scarf turban fashion around the hat.
Traditionally, if a warrior fell in battle, his turban would be removed and used as a shroud.
2 The
Junakot Dance
b)
There is also a dance called the Junakot Dance- the hero's kola dance- performed
by a group of men wearing semi-circular whitecaps, made locally. The
waistcoat is of black wool, decorated with darker colours (usually purple)
and the trouser (cobe) also woollen. Around the waists men wear wide
belts of different colours (mostly dark) and on the feet homemade leather
sandals with pointed toes.
