| Type: | v |
| Official Name: | Shulin |
| Other Name: | Шулин, Diellas |
| County: | Korçë |
| Municipality: | Pustec |
| Municunit: | Pustec |
| Coordinates: | 40.8022°N 20.9106°W |
| Population As Of: | 2000 |
| Population Total: | 502 |
Shulin (Albanian: Shulin; Macedonian/Bulgarian: Шулин), formerly known officially as Diellas, is a village southeast of Lake Prespa in the Pustec Municipality which is officially recognised as a Macedonian minority zone[1] located in the Korçë County, Albania.[2] The village is composed of ethnic Macedonians,[3] which form part of the larger Macedonian minority in Albania.[4]
In 1939, on behalf of 37 Bulgarian houses in Shulin Goge Lambrov signed a request by the local Bulgarians to the Bulgarian tsaritsa Giovanna requesting her intervention for the protection of the Bulgarian people in Albania - at that time an Italian protectorate.[5]
In 2013, the village's official name was changed back from "Diellas" to "Shulin", the Macedonian name.[6]
In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area and reported that the village of Chegan was inhabited by about 270 Bulgarian Christians.[7]
According to a survey by Georgi Trajčev in 1911 and 1912, Shulin had 23 houses and 375 Bulgarian residents.[8]
A 2007 estimate put the village population in the range of 600 to 650 people.[9]
According to Bulgarian sources, including research by a Bulgarian scientist from Albania, the local inhabitants are Bulgarians.[10] [11]
Although Shulin is located in modern-day Korçë County, the village traditionally belongs to the Lower Prespa region, and therefore its inhabitants speak the Lower Prespa dialect rather than the neighbouring Korča dialect of Macedonian.
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