Moscopole printing house

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 printing house
StatusDefunct
Founded1720/1731
FounderGeorgios Konstantinidis
Country of originOttoman Empire
Headquarters locationMoscopole
Owner(s)Georgios Konstantinidis

History

The Moscopole printing house was founded by the monk Georgios Konstantinidis.[1] 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.[2] The printing house of Moscopole was founded in 1720[3] or in 1731,[4] and was the second printing house in the Balkans after that of Constantinople (now Istanbul).[5]

The printing house of Moscopole produced religious literature and school textbooks using the Greek language.[6] A total of nineteen books, mainly the collection of the Services to the Saints but also the Introduction of Grammar by the local scholar Theodore Kavalliotis, are known to have been printed in Moscopole. The printing house had close ties to the Monastery of Saint Naum, now in North Macedonia.[4]

References
  1. Greek, Roman and Byzantine studies. Duke University. 1981. p. 90.
  2. Elsie, Robert. "GREGORY OF DURRËS". Archived from the original on 13 January 2012.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Kekridis Eustathios (1989). Θεόδωρος Αναστασίου Καβαλλιώτης (1718; 1789). Ο Διδάσκαλος του Γένους. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (in Greek and English). p. 44. Retrieved 11 September 2010.
  6. 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.
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