Komat ( sq-definite, Komati; ) is a village in the former commune of

Livadhe Livadhe () is a village and a former commune in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Finiq. The population at the 2011 census was 1,165.Vlorë County Vlorë County (; ) is one of the 12 counties of Albania with the city of Vlorë being the county capital. The county spans and has a total population of 146,681 people as of 2023. It borders the counties of Fier and Gjirokastër, as well as th ...

, southern

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. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the

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Finiq Finiq (, sq-definite, Finiqi, ) is a settlement, considered a town or village, and municipality in Vlorë County, in southern Albania located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the Greek border. It was formed at the 2015 local g ...

. A 1993 study by Leonidas Kallivretakis found that the total population of the village was 309, all of them part of the

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community in Albania.

History

Komat is recorded in the Ottoman ''

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'' of 1583 as a village in the

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with a total of 27 households, the majority of those being

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and only 10 household heads being

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. Aside from the general Muslim and Christian anthroponyms attested in the village,

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personal names are also recorded: ''Andrea Kondi''; ''Nikë Andrea''; ''Nikë Kondi''; ''Ahmet Sanik''; ''Sinan Kondi''; ''Nika Guka''; ''Hasan Merusa''; ''Ahmet Ikaqi''; ''Mustafa Ahmet''; ''Ali Sinani''; ''Bajazit Ahmet''; ''Durmish Haxhiu''; ''Sinan Durmishi''; ''Sinan Hasani''; ''Hamza Abdullahu''; ''Dedë Sinani''; ''Ali Abdullahu''; ''Kolep Nika''; ''Ali Andrea''; ''Hasa Jani''; ''Hasan Dhima''; ''Ahmet Mustafai''; ''Hasan Ikaqi''; ''Durmish Sinani''; ''Durmish Ahmeti''; ''Ahmet Haxhiu'' from Romishta.

References

Administrative units of Finiq Former municipalities in Vlorë County Villages in Vlorë County {{Vlorë-geo-stub