Vagalat ( el, Βαγγαλάτι) is a village in the former

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Livadhe Livadhe () is a village and a former 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 Gjirokastë ...

, southern

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. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the

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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 f ...

. A 1993 study by Leonidas Kallivretakis found that the total population of the village was 1058, all of them part of the

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community in Albania. Its name contains the Albanian suffix -at, widely used to form toponyms from personal names and surnames.

Demographics

The Ottoman '' defter'' of 1582 for the Sanjak of Delvina provides records for the village of Vagalat. 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 Vagalat, halft 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.

References

Administrative units of Finiq Former municipalities in Vlorë County Villages in Vlorë County {{Vlorë-geo-stub