Vrahogoranxi
Vrahogoranxi
Βραχογορατζή | |
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.svg.png)  Vrahogoranxi | |
| Coordinates: 39°59′24″N 20°17′10″E / 39.99013°N 20.2861°E | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Gjirokastër |
| Municipality | Dropull |
| Administrative unit | Dropull i Poshtëm |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vrahogoranxi (Greek: Βραχογορατζή) 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, the village was attested in the district of Dropull. It had a total of 172 households and the anthroponymy attested almost entirely belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere, characterised by personal names such as Bardh, Deda, Gjin, Gjon, Kola, Leka and others. The village also had 6 Muslim households.[3]
The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 367 in 1992.[4]
References
- ^ "Location of Frashtan". Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Duka, Ferit (1990). "La Realite Ethnique De Dropull Dans Les Sources Historiques Du XVI Siecle". Studia Albanica (2): 7–9.
- ^ 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] (PDF). In Veremis, Thanos; Kouloumpis, Thodoros; Nikolakopoulos, Ilias (eds.). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [Hellenism of Albania] (in Greek). Ekdoseis Sideris. p. 58. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.
Subdivisions of Dropull municipality | ||
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Municipal seat: Dropull | ||
| Administrative unit of Dropull i Poshtëm |  | |
| Administrative unit of Dropull i Sipërm | ||
| Administrative unit of Pogon | ||