Livinë ( sq-definite, Livina; el, Λιβήνα;

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: ''Livína'') is a small village in Vlorë County, southern Albania. 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 Greeks.

Demographics

The Ottoman ''

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'' of 1582 for the Sanjak of Delvina provides records for the village of Livinë. A significant portion of the anthroponyms recorded in the register belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere, including personal names such as ''Bos'', ''Dedë'', ''Dodë'', ''Gjergj'', ''Gjin'', ''Gjokë'', ''Gjon'', ''Lalë'', ''Lekë'', ''Muzhak'', and others. However, more ambiguous or general Christian anthroponyms that were historically used by both Albanian and non-Albanian groups are also attested. In Livinë, over a third of the population recorded bore either an Albanian personal name or patronym. These figures do not take into account kinship ties shared between individuals bearing typical Albanian anthroponymy and those bearing more ambiguous names, and also do not include those bearing names that can be etymologically explained through Albanian (e.g., ''Bardhi'', ''Buzmiri'', ''Buzuku''). As such the ethnic Albanian element must have represented a larger proportion. According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 109 inhabitants in 1895.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. 286 The village had 449 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Livinë Villages in Vlorë County Greek communities in Albania