Dhuvjan
Δούβιανη
Village
Dhuvjan is located in Albania
Dhuvjan
Dhuvjan
Coordinates: 39°59′50″N 20°11′52″E / 39.99722°N 20.19778°E / 39.99722; 20.19778
Country Albania
CountyGjirokastër
MunicipalityDropull
Municipal unitDropull i Poshtëm
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Dhuvjan (Greek: Δούβιανη, Douviani) is a settlement in the former Dropull i Poshtëm municipality, Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Dropull.[2] It is within the larger Dropull region.

Demographics

In the Ottoman register of 1520 for the Sanjak of Avlona, Dhuvjan was attested as a village in the timar under the authority of Hasan and Ibrahim, the sons of Mahmud, who possessed and worked it jointly. The village had a total of 92 households. The anthroponymy attested largely belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere, characterised by personal names such as Bardh, Deda, Gjin, Laluç, Gurmir, Gjon, Kola, Leka and others.[3] According to Ferit Duka, the lack of names ending with -s implies a lack of Greek names. According to Doris Kyriazis, Ferit Duka's interpretation of the absence of the suffix -s in the names as an argument for the lack of the Greek element is wrong, because this was quite typical in Ottoman records on areas that were undoubtedly Greek-speaking. Another discrepancy, according to Kyriazis, was that Duka ignored the etymology of the local topology and the presence of archaic Greek place names that the Slavs had translated into their own language.[4]


Today it is inhabited by members of the Greek minority.

Culture

Religion

The famous Dhuvjan Monastery, dedicated to Saints Quiricus and Julietta, as well as several smaller Eastern Orthodox churches are located in Dhuvjan.[5]

Education

A Greek school was operating in the nearby Dhuvjan monastery from 1777. The first school in the village itself, a Greek elementary school, was operating at 1853, while a girls' school opened later at 1914.[6]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "Location of Dhuvjan". Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  2. ↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Duka, Ferit (1990). "La Realite Ethnique De Dropull Dans Les Sources Historiques Du XVI Siecle". Studia Albanica (2): 25–26.
  4. ↑ Kyriazis, Doris K. (2018). "Language contact and onomastics: tautological constructs, folk etymologies and some methodological issues". Romanoslavica. LIV (3): 161–170. ISSN 2537-4214. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  5. ↑ Serjani, Engjëll (26 April 2010). "Manastiret e harruara të Luginës së Drinos". Gazeta Shqip (in Albanian). Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  6. ↑ Koltsida, Athina. Η Εκπαίδευση στη Βόρεια Ήπειρο κατά την Ύστερη Περίοδο της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας (PDF) (in Greek). University of Thessaloniki. pp. 165, 197, 206. Retrieved 27 December 2014.


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