Lumë (region)

Lumë (definite Albanian form: Luma) is an ethnographic region that extends itself in northeastern Albania and southwest Kosovo. It includes the village with the same name, Lumë, which lays in Albania. It is surrounded by Has region in the north and northwest, Fan and Orosh, Reçi and M’Ujë e m’Uja in the south, Reka, Gora and Opoja in the east, and Vërrini of Prizren in the north. The region is home if an Albanian tribe with the same name.

Only a small portion of the region, half of Tërthorë Flag, is situated within the borders of Kosovo, from Prizeren city to the border between Kosovo and Albania. During the Balkan wars, Bozidar Jankovic, the general of the invading Serbian army, ordered his army to commit massacres of the Abanians of Luma resulting in entire villages being burned down with the inhabitants being burned alive or slaughtered.

The region is documented first in the 16th century (1571 -1591), as a nahiye of the Sanjak of İpek, whereas in the 17th century it is mentioned by Frang Bardhi as the most eastern frontier of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë.

It is thought that before the 18th century the timar system was replaced by the self-governing system of bajrak. Luma has had 7 bajraks:

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