Grazhdan
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Grazhdan ({{lang-sq-definite|Grazhdani}}; {{langx|el|Γριάσδανη}}; romanized: Griásdani) is a small village in the former commune of Livadhe, Vlorë County, southern Albania.{{cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=Grazhdan&country=AL|title=Location of Grazhdan}} At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.{{cite web |url=https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |title=Law nr. 115/2014 |language=sq |pages=6376|access-date=25 February 2022 }} It is inhabited solely by Greeks.{{cite web|last1=Kallivretakis|first1=Leonidas|title=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]|url=http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/handle/10442/8696|publisher=Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης|accessdate=2 February 2015|page=52|language=Greek|date=1995}}
Demographics
According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 117 inhabitants in 1895.Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "[http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/bitstream/10442/7682/1/N02.018.09.pdf 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 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.Hellenic Army General Staff, [http://invenio.lib.auth.gr/record/68091/files/arc-2007-27005.pdf 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
Notable individuals
- Nikolaos Stavrou (1935 - 2011) (el), Greek American author and professor at Howard University.[https://usa.greekreporter.com/2011/12/30/greek-american-professor-nikolaos-stavrou-passes-away/ Greek-American Professor Nikolaos Stavrou Passes Away], December 30, 2011, by Stella Tsolakidou, greekreporter.com
References
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External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ5t_J3Dmg8 Video showing the village]
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