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{{Expand Italian|date=March 2022|topic=geo}}
{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                = Contessa Entellina
| official_name       = ''Comune di Contessa Entellina''<br />''Bashkia e Kuntisës''
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| image_skyline       = Comune di Contessa Entellina PA skyline.jpg
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| image_caption       = Landscape of Contessa Entellina
| image_shield        = ContessaEntellina-Stemma.gif
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| image_map           = Comune di Contessa Entellina.jpg
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| coordinates         = {{coord|37|44|N|13|11|E|region:IT_type:city(1981)|display=inline,title}}
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| region              = [[Sicily]]
| metropolitan_city   = [[Metropolitan City of Palermo|Palermo]] (PA)
| frazioni            = 
| mayor_party         = 
| mayor               = Leonardo Spera
| area_footnotes      = 
| area_total_km2      = 136.48
| population_footnotes = 
| population_total    = 1721
| population_as_of    = 30 June 2017
| pop_density_footnotes = 
| population_demonym  = Contessioti
| elevation_footnotes = 
| elevation_m         = 571
| twin1               = 
| twin1_country       = 
| saint               = [[Saint Nicholas]] of Myra
| day                 = December 6
| postal_code         = 90030
| area_code           = 091
| website             = {{official website|http://www.contessaentellina.gov.it/}}
| footnotes           = 
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'''Contessa Entellina''' ({{langx|sq|Kuntisa}}) is a small ''[[comune]]''   in the [[Metropolitan City of Palermo]], in [[Sicily]], southern [[Italy]].

Is located in the "Valle del Belìce" at  {{convert|571|m|ft}} above sea level in the mountains called ''Brinjat'', is situated 80&nbsp;km from Palermo. The country, along with [[Piana degli Albanesi]] and [[Santa Cristina Gela]], is among the three [[minority group|ethnic]] communities of [[Arbëreshë people|Arbëreshë]] of Sicily, who still speak Albanian, carefully preserve the [[Byzantine Rite|Orthodox rite]], the Albanian costumes, musical and gastronomic traditions of the ancient [[Albania]].

==History==
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The foundation is attributed to about 1450 on the ruins of a remote farmhouse seniority, the "Comitissa", but the chapter officers, the granting of fiefs, were built in 1520, when he started the rebuilding, upgrading and restocking of Albanians from [[Albania]] and subsequently also by the southern [[Morea]], from Albanian communities where they lived from 1300.

In ancient times it was near them the ancient [[Elymian]] city of ''[[Entella]]'', in fact, with the discovery of archaeological ancient site, to give relief to the old site, you would add the name of the country, even the term Entella.

Today Contessa Entellina keeps the [[Albanian language]], the culture of their ancestors, and holds the [[Byzantine rite]]; but lives a very difficult period. From earthquake of Belice to date have followed many migrations, halving the population and depopulating the city center, the Albanian language is also taught to fewer and fewer young people so the community is constantly lost and the identity is dying.

== Demographics ==
{{Historical populations|1861|3364|1871|3285|1881|3293|1901|2646|1911|2117|1921|1911|1931|2301|1936|2597|1951|2894|1961|2669|1971|2207|1981|2041|1991|2052|2001|1985|2011|1865|2021|1529|footnote=Source: [[National Institute of Statistics (Italy)|ISTAT]]|cols=2|align=none}}

==People==
*[[Nicola Chetta]] (1741–1803), [[Byzantine rite|Byzantine-Greek rite]] priest, ethnographic, writer and poet.
*Antonino Cuccia (1850–1938), popular poet whose work represent an important testimony of [[Arbëresh language|Arbëresh]] spoken in Contessa Entellina.
*[[Vaccaro brothers]]
*Lorenzo Tardo (1883–1967), [[Basilian monks|Basilian]] priest and scholar of Byzantine music.
*Vincenzo Scramuzza (1886?&ndash;1956), historian.
*Leonardo Lala (1906–2000), writer and expert on Arbëreshë language, history, and folk traditions.
*[[Giuseppe Schirò (junior)]]
*Matteo Sciambra (1914–1967), Byzantine rite priest, university professor and writer, whose work focuses on the study of Arbëresh and on the preservation of the Byzantine [[Liturgy|liturgical]] heritage of the Arbëreshë communities in Sicily.
*[[Bino (singer)]] (1953–2010), pop singer

==See also==
* [[Albania]]
* [[Byzantine Rite]]
* [[Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi]]
* [[George Kastrioti Skanderbeg]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons}}
* [http://www.contessaentellina.gov.it/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124091439/http://contessaentellina.gov.it/ |date=2021-01-24 }}


{{Province of Palermo}}
{{Arbëreshë settlements}}
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[[Category:Arbëresh settlements]]
[[Category:Elymians]]
[[Category:Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Palermo]]


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