Koman,_Albania

Koman, Albania

Koman, Albania

Village in Shkodër, Albania

Not to be confused with Kuman, Albania.

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 has taken the name of the settlement.

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The settlement takes its name from the Cumans.[3] Koman also gave the name to the Koman culture, around which is built an important theory of the transition between Illyrians and Albanians.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Location of Koman". Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  2. [2]
    "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6374–6375. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. [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. [4]
    Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (2005). Ancient West & East. BRILL. p. 230. ISBN 978-90-04-14176-6. Retrieved 26 September 2013.

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