Hormovë
Hormovë is a community in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Tepelenë.[2]
Hormovë | |
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  Hormovë | |
| Coordinates: 40°14′20″N 20°6′4″E | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Gjirokastër |
| Municipality | Tepelenë |
| Municipal unit | Qendër Tepelenë |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
When the Greek War of Independence broke up (1821) a number of locals formed armed groups and supported the Independence struggle in Peloponnese and Central Greece.[3]
In the context of the Balkan War and the rise of the North Epirus movement, the village of Hormova was occupied by Greek military units. On April 29, 1914, Greek soldiers and soldiers massacred 220 Hormovite albanian men inside the premises of the monastery of St. Mary, above the village of Koder. When Dutch General Deever arrived in the country in May, he witnessed a gruesome sight. Reports from Dutch general and accompanying medical team shocked European chancelleries
Notable people
- Konstantinos Lagoumitzis (1781–1827), hero of the Greek War of Independence.
References
- "Location of Hormovë". Retrieved 2010-06-03.
- "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-06-25.
- Pappas, Nicholas Charles (1991). Greeks in Russian military service in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Institute for Balkan Studies. p. 294.
