Dhrovjan
Δρόβιανη | |
|---|---|
.svg)  Dhrovjan | |
| Coordinates: 39°53′22″N 20°13′3″E / 39.88944°N 20.21750°E | |
| Country |  Albania |
| County | Vlorë |
| Municipality | Finiq |
| Municipal unit | Mesopotam |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Dhrovjan (Albanian definite form: Dhrovjani; Greek: Δρόβιανη, Droviani) is a community in the Vlorë County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Finiq.[2] It is located 18 kilometers (11 mi) east of Sarandë. An ethnic Greek village, in 1967 it contained around 300 houses, divided into two Mahalle.[3] Ancient Greek coins have been excavated in the fields of Dhrovjan,[citation needed] which have provided evidence that there were once several ancient Greek temples in the area[according to whom?]. Dhrovjan is the burial place of Harold 'Bill' Sykes, a British bi-plane pilot shot down in November 1940.
Dhrovjan is inhabited solely by Greeks.[4]
- ^ Geonames. "Location of Dhrovjan". Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond (1967). Epirus: the geography, the ancient remains, the history and topography of Epirus and adjacent areas. Clarendon P. p. 120.
- ^ Καλλιβρετάκης, Λεωνίδας (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], p. 55, ISBN 978-960-08-0054-8, retrieved 2021-10-07