Grazhdan
Grazhdan
Γριάσδανη | |
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.svg)  Grazhdan Location within Albania | |
| Coordinates: 39°47′46″N 20°14′54″E / 39.79611°N 20.24833°E | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Vlorë |
| Municipality | Finiq |
| Administrative unit | Livadhe |
| Time zone | UTC+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]
Name
[edit]The possible derivations of Grazhdan are from either from a resident's name, itself from the Bulgarian град, grad for 'city' and the suffix -яне, -yane with the meaning 'an inhabitant of the city' and the Bulgarian sound change d and y into zhd.[3] Or from an Albanian formation from grazhd meaning 'manger' borrowed from the Slavic гражд, grazhd for 'sheepfold', and the suffix an.[3] Linguist Xhelal Ylli writes the stress on the first syllable in both cases does not match the corresponding formation type for the placename.[3]
Demographics
[edit]According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 117 inhabitants in 1895.[4]
The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 600 in 1992.[5]
Notable individuals
[edit]- Nikolaos Stavrou (1935 - 2011) (el), Greek American author and professor at Howard University.[6]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Location of Grazhdan".
- ↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- 1 2 3 Ylli, Xhelal (1997). Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen. Teil 2: Ortsnamen [Slavic Loan Material in Albanian. Part 2: Placenames] (PDF) (in German). Verlag Otto Sagner. p. 118. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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] (PDF). In Veremis, Thanos; Kouloumpis, Thodoros; Nikolakopoulos, Ilias (eds.). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [Hellenism of Albania] (in Greek). Ekdoseis Sideris. p. 52. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.
- ↑ Greek-American Professor Nikolaos Stavrou Passes Away, December 30, 2011, by Stella Tsolakidou, greekreporter.com
External links
[edit]Subdivisions of Finiq municipality | ||
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Municipal seat: Finiq | ||
| Administrative unit of Aliko |
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| Administrative unit of Dhivër |
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| Administrative unit of Finiq | ||
| Administrative unit of Livadhe | ||
| Administrative unit of Mesopotam | ||