Lohja (region)

Albanian bayraks as of 1918 from Franz Seiner. Lohja located in section 38, between Kopliku, Reci, Rijolli. Name does not appear on the map, but inside the legend.

Lohja is a northern Albanian region whose territory is synonymous with a minor historic Albanian tribe of the same name. The area of Lohja is part of the wider Malësia region,[1] known also as Malësia of Shkodra.[2] Lohja is used as a surname, for people claiming ancestry from it.

The term Lohja occurs, according to Edith Durham, in a document in 1349 as Loho.[3]

Geographically, Lohja is a small region situated in the Malësia e Madhe District, near Dedaj, north of Koplik. It borders on the traditional tribal regions of Kastrati to the west and north, and on Reç and Rjolli to the south. Many families from Lohja are located in the town of Koplik and they are referred as autochtones even though they have settled around 200 years later than the founders.[4]

The Lohja tribe had a population of some 2,500 in the last years of the 19th century.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Prele Milani - Shala, Shoshi, dhe Merturi: Themeluesit e Dukagjinit te ri (in Albanian) Archived 2014-12-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ Buda, Aleks (1985), Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar, Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH, p. 61, OCLC 15296028
  3. ↑ The Tribes of Albania:History, Society, and Culture. Robert Elsie. p. 89.
  4. ↑ "Koplik, a brief historical view Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine.". Municipality of Koplik (in Albanian)
  5. ↑ Robert Elsie (2010), Historical Dictionary of Albania, Historical Dictionaries of Europe, 75 (2 ed.), Scarecrow Press, pp. 268, 282, ISBN 978-0810861886
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