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KORTCHA (Slavonic, Goritza or Koritza)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 914 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KORTCHA (See also:Slavonic, Goritza or Koritza)  , a See also:city of See also:Albania, See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Iannina, in a wide See also:plain watered by the Devol and Dunavitza See also:rivers, and surrounded by mountains on every See also:side except the See also:north, where See also:Lake Malik constitutes the boundary . Pop . (1905), about 1o,000, including Greeks, Albanians and Slays . See also:Kortcha is the see of an Orthodox See also:Greek See also:metropolitan, whose large See also:cathedral is richly decorated in the interior with paintings and statues . The Kortcha school for girls, conducted by See also:American missionaries, is the only educational See also:establishment in which the See also:Turkish See also:government permits the use of Albanian as the See also:language of instruction . The See also:local See also:trade is chiefly agricultural .

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