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Qeparo
Sign in to saveQeparo (; , Kiparo) is a seaside village in the municipality of Himara in Vlorë County, Albania. The village is part of the Albanian Riviera and is divided into two parts – Upper or Old Qeparo on higher ground, and Lower or New Qeparo on the coast. Qeparo is an Albanian-speaking village.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Qeparo is referenced by 41 other articles, and connects out to Bronze Age, Himarë and Arbëresh.
It is catalogued under topics including Albanian Ionian Sea Coast, Greek communities in Albania and Labëria.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Albania
- Located in
- Himarë
- Elevation
- 450
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Image
- Qeparo-Strand2.jpg
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13 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Antiquity and medieval period
- Ottoman period
- Modern period
- Geography
- Demographics
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Qeparo (; , Kiparo) is a seaside village in the municipality of Himara in Vlorë County, Albania. The village is part of the Albanian Riviera and is divided into two parts – Upper or Old Qeparo on higher ground, and Lower or New Qeparo on the coast. Qeparo is an Albanian-speaking village.
==Name== The first identified form of the name of the village is "Clapero" in the 1566 correspondence of the people of Himara who were seeking refuge from the Ottoman Empire with the Kingdom of Naples. The name is thought to derive from the word kllapë and the Greek suffix -erό, which is commonly used in toponyms (e.g. Vromero). As "kllapë/klapa" has nearly the same meaning in the local Albanian and Greek dialects, the question arises as to whether the name is Albanian or Greek. The form Qeparo is a later innovation which was produced via vowel metathesis and the typical shift of /kl/ to /q/ in southern Albanian dialects.
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