Moscopole printing house

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Moscopole printing house
Status	Defunct
Founded	1720/1731
Founder	Georgios Konstantinidis
Country of origin	Ottoman Empire
Headquarters location	Moscopole
Owner(s)	Georgios Konstantinidis

The Moscopole printing house was an 18th-century printing house founded in Moscopole, formerly a prosperous city in the Ottoman Empire and now a village in Albania.

Moscopole is located at a distance of 21 kilometres (13 miles) from modern Korçë, in the mountains of southeastern Albania, at an altitude of 1,160 metres (3,810 feet).^[1]

History

The Moscopole printing house was founded by the monk Georgios Konstantinidis.^[2] Konstantinidis, owner of the printing house, was a teacher at the New Academy of Moscopole, and he might have been the same person as Gregory of Durrës.^[3] The printing house of Moscopole was founded in 1720^[4] or in 1731,^[5] and was the second printing house in the Balkans after that of Constantinople (now Istanbul).^[6]

The printing house of Moscopole produced religious literature and school textbooks using the Greek language.^[7] A total of twenty books can be attributed without doubt to the Moscopole printing press.^[8] They are mainly constituted by the collection of the Services to the Saints (1750) but also by the Introduction of Grammar (1760) by the local scholar Theodore Kavalliotis. The printing house had close ties with the Monastery of Saint Naum, now in North Macedonia.^[5]

References

^ "Moscopole was the cultural center of the Aromanians – Assembly of European Regions". aer.eu. 5 January 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
^ Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies. Duke University. 1981. p. 90.
^ Elsie, Robert. "GREGORY OF DURRËS". Archived from the original on 13 January 2012.
^ Lloshi, Xhevat (2008). Rreth Alfabetit te shqipes [Around the Albanian Alphabet)] (in Albanian). Logos. p. 103. ISBN 978-9989-58-268-4. Retrieved 1 June 2010.
^ ^a ^b Mikropoulos, Tassos A. (2008). Elevating and Safeguarding Culture Using Tools of the Information Society: Dusty traces of the Muslim culture. Earthlab. pp. 315–316. ISBN 978-960-233-187-3.
^ Kekridis Eustathios (1989). Θεόδωρος Αναστασίου Καβαλλιώτης (1718; 1789). Ο Διδάσκαλος του Γένους (Thesis) (in Greek and English). Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. p. 44. doi:10.12681/eadd/1624. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
^ Detrez, Raymond (15 July 2013). Entangled Histories of the Balkans - Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies. BRILL. p. 52. ISBN 978-90-04-25076-5.
^ Yll Rugova (2022). Tipografia shqiptare 1555–1912, p. 130–131. "The press of Moscopole must have operated between 1731 and 1760. We know for sure 20 volumes printed there, of which today 189 copies are kept in different collections and libraries."

Moscopole

Voskopojë, Moschopolis

Monuments

Churches	St. Athanasius St. Elijah St. Mary St. Michael (Archangels) St. Nicholas Monastery of St. John the Baptist
Other	St. John the Baptist Bridge

Cultural institutions
(defunct)

Manuscripts

Natives

Ioannis Chalkeus Theophrastos Georgiadis Nicolae Ianovici Theodore Kavalliotis Georgios Konstantinidis Dionysios Mantoukas Violeta Manushi Ioakeim Martianos Daniel Moscopolites Konstantinos Skenderis Nektarios Terpos Konstantinos Tzechanis Constantin Ucuta Iuliu Valaori [ro]
Diaspora	Mihail G. Boiagi Llazar Fundo Emanoil Gojdu Mocioni family Andrei Max Demeter Peyfuss Victor Ponta Sandër Prosi Orli Shuka Agim Shuke Georgios Sinas Simon Sinas Konstantinos Smolenskis Tzon Sossidis [el] Lazaros Tsamis Andreas Tzimas

v t e Modern Greek Enlightenment
Main ideas	Greek Independence Nationalism Liberalism Constitutionalism Education Westernization Hellenization Freedom of religion Greek language
Publications	Asma Polemistirion Salpisma Polemistirion Adelphiki Didaskalia Geographia Neoteriki Hellenic Nomarchy Hellenic Library Ephimeris Calliope Rossaglogallos Hermes o Logios Politika Parallela Thourios or Patriotic hymn Pamphlet of Rigas Feraios Map of Greece New Map of Wallachia and part of Transylvania Real Bliss General Map of Moldavia Gnostike, Stoicheia Philosophias
Academies	Ottoman Empire: Athonite Academy Evangelical School Kaplaneios Maroutsaia New Academy Phanar Greek Orthodox College Phrontisterion of Trapezous Diaspora: Flanginian School Princely Academy of Bucharest Princely Academy of Iași
Representatives	Methodios Anthrakites Kosmas Balanos Athanasios Christopoulos Neophytos Doukas Vikentios Damodos Theoklitos Farmakidis Rigas Feraios Anthimos Gazis Georgios Gennadios Theophilos Kairis Theodore Kavalliotis Grigorios Konstantas Adamantios Korais Konstantinos Koumas Stefanos Kanellos Sevastos Leontiadis Benjamin of Lesbos Iosipos Moisiodax Minas Minoidis Konstantinos Michail Konstantinos Nikolopoulos Michail Papageorgiou Christodoulos Pablekis Daniel Philippidis Athanasios Psalidas Theoklitos Polyeidis Athanasios Stageiritis Konstantinos Tzechanis Neophytos Vamvas Ioannis Vilaras Eugenios Voulgaris
Related	Philomuse Society Filiki Eteria Ionian Academy Orphanage of Kairis Moscopole printing house

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