The town of Kor\u00e7\u00eb is the most densely populated urban center in Southeastern Albania. It is located at the foot of the Morava Mountain at an altitude of about 850 m above sea level and extends to the edge of the valley of the same name, which is one of the richest and most important in present-day southern Albania.
\n\u03a4he first historical reports about the settlement of the area of Kor\u00e7\u00eb begin from the Byzantine years. According to written sources, Kor\u00e7\u00eb is mentioned as a city related to the Muzakajt feudal family (13th-15th century), who were based in Berati, in the plain of Myzeqeja. With the Ottoman conquest, the provinces of Kor\u00e7\u00eb, Kolonj\u00ebs and P\u00ebrmet became a separate administrative unit with Kor\u00e7\u00eb as its capital. According to the first census of the Ottoman administration of 1431-1432, Kor\u00e7\u00eb appears as a residential castle with twenty-six houses, all Christian, and its own market.
\nDuring the period before the 11th century and until 1030, the region of Kor\u00e7\u00eb belonged, ecclesiastically, as it appears from the golden bull of Basil II, to the metropolis of Kastoria, which, in turn, belonged to the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Archdiocese of Ohrid. The exact date of the establishment of the metropolis of Kor\u00e7\u00eb is not historically confirmed, but we know that the first mention, under the title “Kor\u00e7a and Selasphorus”, was made after the year 1557.
\nThe Christian Orthodox element made up 2\/3 of the urban population and had organized the Orthodox Community, which had the Demogerontia, which consisted of ten members, based in the Metropolis of the city. The spiritual life was centered on the spiritual institutions of the city, the most important of which was the old metropolitan church of Zoodochos Pigi (Life-giving Spring), which was located within the area of the community schools and the metropolitan building.<\/p>\n