Lefterhor

Lefterhor (Albanian: Lefterhori, Greek: Λευτεροχώρι; romanized: Lefterohóri) is a village in Vlorë County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Delvinë.[2] It is inhabited exclusively by ethnic Greeks.[3]

Lefterhor
Λευτεροχώρι
Village
Lefterhor is located in Albania
Lefterhor
Lefterhor
Coordinates: 39°58′50″N 20°05′38″E
Country Albania
CountyVlorë
MunicipalityDelvinë
Elevation
640 m (2,100 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Demographics

The Ottoman defter of 1582 for the Sanjak of Delvina provides records the village of Lefterhor. A significant portion of the anthroponyms recorded in the register belonged to the Albanian onomastic sphere, including personal names such as Bos, Dedë, Dodë, Gjergj, Gjin, Gjokë, Gjon, Lalë, Lekë, Muzhak, and others. However, more ambiguous or general Christian anthroponyms that were historically used by both Albanian and non-Albanian groups are also attested. In Lefterhor, a third of the population recorded bore either an Albanian personal name or patronym. These figures do not take into account kinship ties shared between individuals bearing typical Albanian anthroponymy and those bearing more ambiguous names, and also do not include those bearing names that can be etymologically explained through Albanian (e.g., Bardhi, Buzmiri, Buzuku). As such the ethnic Albanian element must have represented a larger proportion.[4]

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 57 inhabitants in 1895.[5]

The village had 417 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnic Greeks.[3]

References
  1. "GeoNames Fulltextsearch : Lefterhor". www.geonames.org. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
  2. "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. 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. 54. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  4. Gjergji, Andromaqi (1987). "Disa të dhëna per popullsinë e zones së delvinës në shek. XVI". Kultura Popullore (1): 195–7.
  5. 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. 287
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