Sopa (tribe)
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The Sopa or Sopi tribe is a historical
Sharr Mountains of today's Kosovo, Albania and North Macedonia. Members of the tribe can be found in many Albanian-inhabited regions of Kosovo and North Macedonia, specifically in and around Prizren
.
Origins
The Sopa tribe is of Albanian ancestry and are considered to have their origins in the Sharr mountains;
The root of the tribe's name can possibly be derived from ‘sop,-i’, which translates to ‘hummock’ in English, but can also mean ‘wedge/spearhead’ or the end of a mill race where the water comes out with force and into the mill wheel.[4] German Albanologist Johann Georg von Hahn translates their name as 'hay'.[5]
Distribution
Many of the tribe's members can be found in the territories around the
Sharr Mountains, in Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia. Branches of the Sopa tribe were present in Leskovac, and they predominated in the Moravica Valley.[6]
See also
- Tribes of Albania
References
- ^ ^[http://www.zemrashqiptare.net/news/id_40227/cid_7/P%C3%ABllumb-Gorica:-N%C3%AB-thell%C3%ABsi-t%C3%AB-toponimeve.html Toponimet janë si zbulimet arkeologjike. . . ,si këto, ashtu edhe ato nxjerrin në dritë popujt që jetuan dhe lulëzuan- Spiro Konda
- ^ ^[http://www.zemrashqiptare.net/news/id_40227/cid_7/P%C3%ABllumb-Gorica:-N%C3%AB-thell%C3%ABsi-t%C3%AB-toponimeve.html Toponimet janë si zbulimet arkeologjike. . . ,si këto, ashtu edhe ato nxjerrin në dritë popujt që jetuan dhe lulëzuan- Spiro Konda
- ISBN 9780857725868.
- ^ "Fjalorthi".
- ISBN 9781350154681.
- ISBN 9781350154681.
Sources
- Ramadani, Nijazi (1909). "Imazhi i Ngrirë" (PDF). Gjilan: SHB “RRJEDHA”.