Çarçovë

Çarçovë
Administrative unit
Çarçovë
Coordinates: 40°7′N 20°32′E / 40.117°N 20.533°ECoordinates: 40°7′N 20°32′E / 40.117°N 20.533°E
Country	Albania
County	Gjirokastër
Municipality	Përmet
Population (2011)
• Administrative unit	918
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Vehicle registration	PR

Çarçovë (also: Çarshovë) is a village, a municipal unit and a former municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Përmet.^[1] The population at the 2011 census was 918.^[2] The municipal unit consists of the villages Çarçovë, Vllaho-Psilloterë, Biovizhdë, Zhepë, Draçovë, Iliar-Munushtir, Strëmbec, Pëllumbar and Kanikol.^[3]

Two villages in the former municipality of Çarçovë (in Greek: Τσαρτσόβα/Tsartsova^[4] or Κεράσοβο/Kerasovo^[5]) are predominantly Greek speaking, in particular: Biovizhdë and Vllaho-Psilloterë.^[6] Some Greek speakers also exist in the nearby villages of Zhepë and Draçovë.^[5]

References

1. Law nr. 115/2014
2. 2011 census results
3. Greece – Albania Neighbourhood Programme
4. Kokolakis, Michalis (2004). Η Τουρκική Στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλμανέ του 1895 (PDF) (in Greek). Athens, Greece: Institute of Modern Greek Studies. p. 273. Retrieved 2015-07-15.
5. Dimitropoulos, Kontsantinos-Fotios (2011). "The Social and Political Structure of Hellenism in Albania in the Post-Hotza Era". www.didaktorika.gr (Panteion University): 11, 13. doi:10.12681/eadd/23044. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
6. Nitsiakos, Vassilis (2010). On the border: Transborder mobility, ethnic groups and boundaries along the Albanian-Greek frontier. LIT Verlag. p. 80. "Çarçovë is the base of the homonymous municipality (Komuna Çarçovë), which includes nine more villages, Biovizhdë, Vllaho-Psilloterrë, Zhepë, Kanikol, Dracovë, Pëllumbar, Strembec, Iliar, Manushtir-Toranik, the first two of which are Greek speaking."; pp. 249-263.