Dhrovjan
Dhrovjan
Δρόβιανη | |
|---|---|
Dhrovjan | |
| Coordinates: 39°53′22″N 20°13′3″E / 39.88944°N 20.21750°E | |
| Country | Albania |
| County | Vlorë |
| Municipality | Finiq |
| Administrative unit | Mesopotam |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Dhrovjan (Albanian definite form: Dhrovjani; Greek: Δρόβιανη, Droviani) is a community in the Vlorë County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Finiq.[2] It is located 18 kilometers (11 mi) east of Sarandë.
Name
The toponym Dhrovjan is derived from either the Bulgarian word дърво, darvo meaning 'wood', or from a resident name Дроб, Drob and the suffix яне, yane, with the Greek or Albanian sound change d into dh, and the Greek sound change b into v.[3]
Demographics
In the interwar period, Dhrovjan was a village inhabited by Greeks, and contained around 300 houses divided into two mahalle (neighbourhoods).[4]
The village is inhabited by Greeks, and the population was 573 in 1992.[5]
Notable people
References
- ^ Geonames. "Location of Dhrovjan". Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ 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. 110. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
- ^ Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond (1967). Epirus: the geography, the ancient remains, the history and topography of Epirus and adjacent areas. Clarendon P. p. 120.
- ^ 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. 55. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.
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