Georgios Dimitriou ( el, Γεώργιος Δημητρίου) was a

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18th-century author and scholar. Dimitriou came from one of the notable and literate families of Gjirokaster, then

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. He was a native of that city, today located in southern

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. He lived at the time when Ali Pasha was the local Ottoman ruler of

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. In 1783 he sent a report to the

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that described Ali Pasha's background and the activities of his irregular troops in the region. Dimitriou published two works. One in 1783, entitled ''Περιγραφή της Βόρειας Αλβανίας και Βόρειας Ηπείρου'' (Description of Northern Albania and Northern Epirus), which is considered of considerable historical value today. In 1785 he published in

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a bilingual Greek-

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Grammar that contained personal observations,

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s and Maxims, as well as biographies of notable men. This work was in fact a collection of

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under the guise of a bilingual grammar. It was dedicated to Alexander II Mavrokordatos "Firaris", ruler of Moldavia.

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Γραμματική Ελληνολατινίς εκ διαφόρων συλλεχθείσα, / παρά Γεωργίου, του Δημητρίου του Προσκ. Κυρ. Ευπατρίδους του εξ Αργυροκάστρου
Bilingual Greek-Latin Grammar by Georgios Dimitriou, Venice 1785. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dimitriou, Georgios 18th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire Greeks from the Ottoman Empire Modern Greek-language writers People from Gjirokastër