Drenovë
| Drenovë | |
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| Village | |
 Drenovë
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| Coordinates: 40°35′N 20°47′E / 40.583°N 20.783°ECoordinates: 40°35′N 20°47′E / 40.583°N 20.783°E | |
| Country |
 Albania
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| County | Korçë |
| Municipality | Korçë |
| Administrative Unit | Drenovë |
| Elevation | 1,112 m (3,648 ft) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| Vehicle registration | KO |
Drenovë (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Дреново) is a village in the former Drenovë Municipality of the Korçë County in southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Korçë.
According to French cartographer, the village had 660 Greek Orthodox inhabitants in 1878. Later in 1903, Heinrich Gelzer, following a visit to both Drenkowa and neighbouring Boboshticë, described the local population as a Bulgarian island in Albanian sea, remained from the old Slavic population before Albanian mass migration from 14th and 15th century.
Georgi Traychev wrote in 1911 that the village consisted of 140 households and 678 Bulgarian inhabitants.
According to German linguist Gustav Weigand during the first decades of the 20th century Bulgarian villages Drenowo and Boboshtitsa were a Bulgarian linguistic island in Albania. According to some linguists Drenovë and Boboshticë were the only villages in which the Korča dialect of the Macedonian language was still spoken (as of 1991). The dialect is classified as part of Bulgarian dialects by other authors. Some Bulgarian linguists emphasize that the reflexes of yat in this western Bulgarian dialect is wide, like it is in Eastern Bulgarian dialects. A visit to the village in 2005 by linguists from Sofia University found just two elderly Bulgarian speakers remaining.
The area has an ethnic Albanian majority. It also has a significant Aromanian population.
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