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Vergo is a village and a former 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
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. At the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the
Delvinë Delvinë ( or , ) is a town and a municipality in Vlorë County, southern Albania, northeast of Sarandë. It was formed in the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Delvinë and Vergo, which became municipal u ...
municipality. The population at the 2023 census was 1,214. The municipal unit consists of the villages Vergo, Tatzat, Kalasë, Fushë Vërri, Kopaçez, Qafë Dardhë (previously: ''Palavli'') and Bajkaj inhabited by
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, and Senicë, populated by an Orthodox Albanian population, making up 94% and 6% of the total each.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. p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί; AM Αλβανοί Μουσουλμάνοι” p.54. "KOPAÇEZA ΚΟΠΑΤΣΑΣ 667 ΑΜ; VERGOJA ΒΕΡΓΚΟ 655 ΑΜ; FUSHE VERIZA ΦΟΥΣΒΕΡΙ 553 ΑΜ; SENICA ΣΕΝΙΤΣΑ 249 ΑΧ; KALASA ΚΑΛΙΑΣΑ 882 ΑΜ; ΤΑΤΖATI ΤΑΤΖΑΤΙ 295 ΑΜ; PALAVLIA ΠΑΛΙΑΥΛΗ 401 ΑΜ; BAJKAJ ΜΠΑΪΚΑ 1233 ΑΜ"
In 1779, a Greek school was founded in Vergo by Orthodox missionary, Kosmas the Aetolian.


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