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(Redirected from Droviani) Village in Vlorë, Albania
Dhrovjan Δρόβιανη
Village
Dhrovjan is located in AlbaniaDhrovjanDhrovjan
Coordinates: 39°53′22″N 20°13′3″E / 39.88944°N 20.21750°E / 39.88944; 20.21750
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityFiniq
Municipal unitMesopotam
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Dhrovjan (Albanian definite form: Dhrovjani; Greek: Δρόβιανη, Droviani) is a community in the Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Finiq. It is located 18 kilometers (11 mi) east of Sarandë. An ethnic Greek village, in 1967 it contained around 300 houses, divided into two Mahalle. Ancient Greek coins have been excavated in the fields of Dhrovjan, which have provided evidence that there were once several ancient Greek temples in the area. Dhrovjan is the burial place of Harold 'Bill' Sykes, a British bi-plane pilot shot down in November 1940.

Dhrovjan is inhabited solely by Greeks.

Notable people

References

  1. Geonames. "Location of Dhrovjan". Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  2. "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond (1967). Epirus: the geography, the ancient remains, the history and topography of Epirus and adjacent areas. Clarendon P. p. 120.
  4. Καλλιβρετάκης, Λεωνίδας (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], p. 55, ISBN 978-960-08-0054-8, retrieved 2021-10-07

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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 Livadhe
Administrative unit of Mesopotam
Greeks in Albania
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GeographyAncient: Chaonia, Parauaea
Medieval and modern: Dryinopolis, Kolonia
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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.
Includes individuals not necessarily of Greek ethnicity but with important contributions to Greek civilization.


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