Dhivër (, ) is a village and a former
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the
Vlorë County
Vlorë County (; ) is one of the 12 counties of Albania with the city of Vlorë being the county capital. The county spans and has a total population of 146,681 people as of 2023. It borders the counties of Fier and Gjirokastër, as well as th ...
, southern
Albania
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. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality
Finiq
Finiq (, sq-definite, Finiqi, ) is a settlement, considered a 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 formed at the 2015 local g ...
. The population at the 2011 census was 1,396,
The municipal unit consists of the villages: Dhivër;
Rumanxë;
Memoraq; Navaricë;
Dermish;
Leshnicë e Sipërme;
Leshnicë e Poshtme;
Janicat;
Llupsat;
Cerkovicë;
Shëndre and
Maliçan.
Demographics
A 1993 study by Leonidas Kallivretakis found that the population of the commune consisted of 91% ethnic Greek Christians and 9% Albanian Muslims, the latter all located in the village of Navaricë.
[Kallivretakis, Leonidas (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
" In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). ''Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]''. University of Athens. Page 53; p. 51. "AM Αλβανοί Μουσουλμάνοι", p. 53. "NAVARICE ΝΑΒΑΡΠΣΑ (ΑΒΑΡΙΤΣΑ) 489 AM".[ "Avaricë, (or Navaricë) a picturesque Albanian-speaking village"] Kallivretakis recorded that the settlement unit of Dhivër at that time was inhabited solely by Greeks.
[ The 2011 census, in which Greeks and other groups have been underrepresented in numbers due to boycott and irregularities:]Greeks
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and 330 Albanians
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.[2011 census results]
References
Dhivër
Administrative units of Finiq
Former municipalities in Vlorë County
Greek communities in Albania
Villages in Vlorë County
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