Koman, Albania

Not to be confused with Kuman, Albania.
Koman
Village
River Drin in the area of Koman, with the village, the dam and the lake
River Drin in the area of Koman, with the village, the dam and the lake
Koman is located in Albania
Koman
Koman
Coordinates: 42°5′25″N 19°48′44″E / 42.09028°N 19.81222°E / 42.09028; 19.81222
Country Albania
CountyShkodër
MunicipalityVau i Dejës
Municipal unitTemal
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Koman is a settlement in the former Temal municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Vau i Dejës.[2] The Koman Hydroelectric Power Station and lake Koman have taken the name of the settlement.

The settlement takes its name from the Cumans.[3] It is the type site of the Koman culture and its fort is on the nearby Dalmace Hill,[4] around which is built an important theory of the transition between Illyrians and Albanians.[5]

  1. ^ "Location of Koman". Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  2. ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6374–6375. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ Spinei, Victor (2009). The Romanians and the Turkic Nomads North of the Danube Delta from the Tenth to the Mid-Thirteenth Century. Brill. p. 317. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  4. ^ Gelichi, Sauro; Negrelli, Claudio (2017). "Early Medieval North Albania: New Discoveries, Remodeling Connections. The Case of Medieval Komani". Studi e Ricerche. 4: 311–346. doi:10.14277/6969-115-7/SR-4-9.
  5. ^ Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (2005). Ancient West & East. BRILL. p. 230. ISBN 978-90-04-14176-6. Retrieved 26 September 2013.