Grazhdan
Grazhdan
Γριάσδανη | |
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| Country | File:Flag of Albania.svg 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 | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]- Nikolaos Stavrou (1935 - 2011) (el), Greek American author and professor at Howard University.[6]
References
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- ^ 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
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Greek-American Professor Nikolaos Stavrou Passes Away, December 30, 2011, by Stella Tsolakidou, greekreporter.com
