Kardhikaq ( sq-definite, Kardhikaqi; el, Γαρδικάκι;

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: ''Gardikáki'') is a small village in

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 by a mix population of

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and

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Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 164 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. 285 In 1993, the village had a mix population of

and

, numbering 215 inhabitants.

References

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