Dukat, Albania

Dukat, Albania
Village
Dukat, Albania
Coordinates: 40°15′2″N 19°34′2″E / 40.25056°N 19.56722°E / 40.25056; 19.56722Coordinates: 40°15′2″N 19°34′2″E / 40.25056°N 19.56722°E / 40.25056; 19.56722
Country  Albania
County Vlorë
Municipality(s) Vlorë
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

Dukat is a community of the Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Vlorë.[1]

History

World War II

During World War II Dukat was part of the battlefield of the battle of Gjorm, where Albanian resistance units defeated and routed the troops of the Kingdom of Italy.[2]

Demographics

Dukat is a mixed inhabited half by Christians and half by Muslims and the whole village speaks Albanian.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Law nr. 115/2014
  2. ↑ Pearson, Owen (2006). Albania in Occupation and War: From Fascism to Communism 1940-1945. I.B.Tauris. p. 230. ISBN 1-84511-104-4.
  3. ↑ Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière (1967). Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 126. "Dukat, which is half Christian and half Mohammedan, but entirely Albanian in speech"

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