Qestorat
Greek Κεστοράτι Chiãsturat | |
|---|---|
 Zographeion college facilities in Qestorat (1881) | |
.svg)  Qestorat | |
| Coordinates: 40°7′3″N 20°11′59″E / 40.11750°N 20.19972°E | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Gjirokastër |
| Municipality | Gjirokastër |
| Municipal unit | Lunxhëri |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Qestorat (Aromanian: Chiãsturat or Chiãsturata) is a community of the former Lunxhëri municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Gjirokastër.[1]
From 1874 to 1891 the village was home to the Greek Zographeion College, educational facilities that included primary and secondary male, female schools and a teacher's academy and operated with the personal costs of the local benefactor Christakis Zografos.[2] Today this institution houses the museum of Lunxhëri.[3]
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Sakellariou M. V.. Epirus, 4000 years of Greek history and civilization Ekdotikē Athēnōn, 1997. ISBN 978-960-213-371-2, p. 308
- ^ Gilles de Rapper. Better than Muslims, not as Good as Greeks: Emigration as experienced and imagined by the Albanian Christians of Lunxhëri The New Albanian Migration. Brighton-Portland, Sussex Academic Press (2005), p. 15