Vacances - Hôtels en Albanie Borsh
The first written document for the city of Korça is the Turkish register of Korça and Përmet, compiled in 1431, just after the Ottoman conquest. According to him, the Korça region was included in the Vilayet of Korça, with the center of Korça, which the Turks called Gajrixhe, turquoise its old Slavic name Gorica. Until then, Korça is not mentioned in any Byzantine medieval documents, despite the great events occurring in the area, but "overlooked" when often referring to neighboring areas such as Devolli, Kolonja, Skrapari to Voskopi (see P. Xhufi, By Paleologists at Muzakaj, publication year 2009). This shows that the Turks only after the conquest were given administrative importance to Korça, though it was much smaller than the villages around it, such as the Mborja with 70 houses, Peshkopia (Peskopja) with 71 houses. In the Turkish Register of 1431 it is said about Korca, on page 69: "The Korca itself, the infidels who reside inside the castle: 26 houses, 5 new, 3 single, 1965 income." Here, Korça appears as a inhabited fortress and fortification was the cause of Ottoman administration. The Turks did not build this castle itself, but found the building built, which is confirmed by the fact that its inhabitants were Christians. The Turks could not build a castle and populate it with the "infidels", but indeed Korca as a center inhabited, existed many years before the arrival of the Turks in Albania, which took place at the end of the 14th century. The location of the castle and the findings in 1923 and 2000 of some wall fragments discovered during the 20th century construction, such as the Sugarve house, the Koçibelli hotel and recently in the Bazet building, between the hotel Koçibell and the house of Sugarve. The researcher P. Lera, based on the technique of building and the size of the discovered wall, concludes that it is a fortification construction rather than a simple construction. Ottoman rule over Korca lasted until 1912, the year when Albania's independence was proclaimed. The Treaty of St. Stephen of 1878 passed through Korça and Pogradec to the Bulgarian Principality while the Treaty of Berlin returned the same year to the Ottoman Empire
