Shëndre
Άγιος Ανδρέας
Village
Shëndre is located in Albania
Shëndre
Shëndre
Coordinates: 39°49′19″N 20°11′46″E / 39.82194°N 20.19611°E / 39.82194; 20.19611
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityFiniq
Elevation
339 m (1,112 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Shëndre (Albanian definite form: Shëndra; Greek: Άγιος Ανδρέας; romanized: Ágios Andréas) is a small village in Vlorë County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.[2] It is inhabited solely by Greeks.[3] The name of the village in both languages means "Saint Andrew".

Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 263 inhabitants in 1895.[4] The village had 446 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Location of Shëndre".
  2. ↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. 1 2 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 Greek). Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. p. 53. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. ↑ 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
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