Grazhdan
Γριάσδανη
Village
Grazhdan is located in Albania
Grazhdan
Grazhdan
Coordinates: 39°47′46″N 20°14′54″E / 39.79611°N 20.24833°E / 39.79611; 20.24833
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityFiniq
Municipal unitLivadhe
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Grazhdan (Albanian definite form: Grazhdani; Greek: Γριάσδανη; romanized: Griásdani) is a small village in the former commune of Livadhe, Vlorë County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.[2] It is inhabited solely by Greeks.[3]

Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 117 inhabitants in 1895.[4] In the "Ethnographical map of Northern Epirus" which was written while Northern Epirus was autonomous (1914), the village had a population of 260, all ethnically Greeks.[5]

Notable individuals

References

  1. ↑ "Location of Grazhdan".
  2. ↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "Η Ελληνική Κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το Πρίσμα της Ιστορικής Γεωγραφίας και Δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in Terms of Historical Geography and Demography]" (in Greek). Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. p. 52. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. ↑ Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895" στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 285
  5. ↑ Hellenic Army General Staff, Χάρτης Εθνογραφικός της Βορείου Ηπείρου τω 1913. Εθνολογική στατιστική της Βορείου Ηπείρου τω 1913 [Ethnographical map of Northern Epirus in 1913. Ethnographical statistics of Northern Epirus in 1913], Τύποις "Άγκυρας" - Ι. Κουμένου, Thessaloniki 1919, p. 13
  6. ↑ Greek-American Professor Nikolaos Stavrou Passes Away, December 30, 2011, by Stella Tsolakidou, greekreporter.com
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