Grazhdan ( sq-definite, Grazhdani; el, Γριάσδανη;

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: ''Griásdani'') is a small village in the former

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Livadhe Livadhe () is a village and a former Communes of Albania, commune in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Finiq. The population at the 2011 census was 1,165.

Vlorë County Vlorë County (; sq, Qarku i Vlorës) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania with the capital in Vlorë. The county spans and has a total population of 187,675 people as of 2021. It borders the counties of Fier and Gjirokastër, ...

, southern

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. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of

Finiq Finiq ( sq, Finiq or Finiqi, el, Φοινίκη, Foiniki) is a settlement, considered town or village, and municipality in Vlorë County, in southern Albania located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the Greek border. It was fo ...

. It is inhabited solely by

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Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 117 inhabitants in 1895. In the "''Ethnographical map of Northern Epirus''" which was written while Northern Epirus was autonomous (1914), the village had a population of 260, all ethnically

Notable individuals

*Nikolaos Stavrou (1935 - 2011) ( el),

Greek American Greek Americans ( el, Ελληνοαμερικανοί ''Ellinoamerikanoí'' ''Ellinoamerikánoi'' ) are Americans of full or partial Greek ancestry. The lowest estimate is that 1.2 million Americans are of Greek descent while the highest es ...

author and professor at

Howard University Howard University (Howard) is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commissi ...

.Greek-American Professor Nikolaos Stavrou Passes Away
December 30, 2011, by Stella Tsolakidou, greekreporter.com

References

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Video showing the village
{{Northern Epirus Villages in Vlorë County Greek communities in Albania