Shëndre

Village in Vlorë, Albania
Shëndre
Άγιος Ανδρέας
Village
39°49′19″N 20°11′46″E / 39.82194°N 20.19611°E / 39.82194; 20.19611
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityFiniq
Elevation
339 m (1,112 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Shëndre (Albanian definite form: Shëndra; Greek: Άγιος Ανδρέας; romanized: Ágios Andréas) is a small village in Vlorë County, southern Albania,[1] inhabited solely by the Greeks.[2] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.[3]The name of the village in both languages means "Saint Andrew".

Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 263 inhabitants in 1895.[4] The village had 446 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Location of Shëndre".
  2. ^ 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]" (in Greek). Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. p. 53. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  3. ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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]" (in Greek). Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. p. 53. Retrieved 2 February 2015.

External links

  • Video showing the village
  • Celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus in Agios Andreas, 2015
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Subdivisions of Finiq Municipality
Municipal Seat: Finiq
Administrative Unit of Aliko
Administrative Unit of Dhivër
Administrative Unit of Finiq
Administrative Unit of LivadheAdministrative Unit of Mesopotam
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Ancient: Chaonia, Parauaea
Medieval and modern: Dryinopolis, Kolonia
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1 Includes localities with a substantial ethnic Greek population, or otherwise with any kind of cultural or other type of significance, historical or current, for the Greek minority in Albania.
2 Includes individuals not necessarily of Greek ethnicity but with important contributions to Greek civilization.