Pilot (župa)

Pilot (Serbian Cyrillic: Пилот, Church Slavonic: Пилоть, Latin: Polatum, Pulati)[1] was a župa (county) of Serbia in the Middle Ages. It was located in the area between Shkodër and the Koritnik mountain,[2] north of the county of Raban (Arbanon). Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja (r. 1166–96) conquered Pilot during his southern campaign, after taking over Zeta (Duklja).[3] The county was mentioned in a charter of Nemanja, including his personal reflection about his lands, calling them his "grandfatherland", which he renewed and received from God; from Arbanon, Pilot was taken.[4] It was an important region of Serbia, part of the network of roads between Zeta and Old Serbia.[5]

Shkodër
Koritnik
Map showing Shkodër and Koritnik on a map of modern Albania. Note the course of the Drin, which was where roads connected southern Zeta (Adriatic) to Prizren, from where roads went further into the hinterland, north, east and south.

Russian ambassador and historian Ivan Jastrebov (1839–1894) identified Pilot as the Dukagjin highlands.[5]

See also

References
  1. Srpsko geografsko društvo (1922). Glasnik Srpskog geografskog društva. 7–11. Srpsko geografsko društvo. p. 199.
  2. Gavro A. Škrivanić (1959). Imenik geografskih naziva srednjovekovne Zete. p. 87. ПИЛОТ, ж.; стара област Пилота налазила се на простору измеЬу Скадра и планине Коритника — Албаведа.
  3. Istorija srpskog naroda: knj. Od najstarijih vremena do Maričke bitke (1371). Srpska književna zadruga. 1982. p. 258.
  4. Prilozi za književnost, jezik, istoriju i folklor. 5–6. Rad. 1926. p. 83. И обновихь свою д-Ьдиноу н больше оутврьдихь Божиювь помокью и своею моудростию, дановь ми 01 Бога. И вьздвигохь погибьшую свою дядину н приобрт>тохь од морьске земле Зетоу и сь градовы, а од Арба- нась Пилоть, и од ...
  5. Milovan Radovanović (2004). Etnički i demografski procesi na Kosovu i Metohiji. Liber Press. p. 135.

Sources
  • Malović-Đukić, Marica (1991). "Пилот у средњем веку". Становништво словенског поријекла у Албанији: Зборник радова са међународног научног скупа одржаног на Цетињу 21, 22. и 23. јуна 1990. године. Titograd: Историјски институт СР Црне Горе.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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