Llongo
Llongo
Λόγγος | |
|---|---|
Llongo | |
| Coordinates: 39°50′05″N 20°22′39″E / 39.83472°N 20.37750°E | |
| Country | Albania |
| County | Gjirokastër |
| Municipality | Dropull |
| Elevation | 580 m (1,900 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Llongo (Albanian definite form: Llongoja; Greek: Λόγγος, romanized: Lóggos) is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.[2]
Name
The placename Llongo is derived from the word 'meadow', rendered in Old Slavic as лжгъ, lag and лъг, lăg in Bulgarian where through old Albanian the reflex ж became on within the toponym.[3]
Demographics
The village is inhabited by Greeks, and the population was 476 in 1992.[4]
References
- ^ "Location of Llongo".
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. 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. 139. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
- ^ 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. 58. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.