Vrisera;
romanized
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: ''Vryserá/Vriserá'') is a village in
Gjirokastër County
Gjirokastër County () is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The total population in 2023 was 60,013, in an area of 2884 km2. Its capital is the city Gjirokastër.
Administrative divisions
Until 2000, Gjirokastër County was subdivided into thre ...
, southern
Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...
. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of
Dropull
Dropull ( sq-definite, Dropulli; ''Dropoli'' or ''Deropoli'') is a municipality in Gjirokastër County, in southern Albania. The region stretches from south of the city of Gjirokastër to the Greek–Albanian border, along the Drino river. The reg ...
.
Demographics
According to
Ottoman statistics, the village had 396 inhabitants in 1895.
[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. 270, written as «Βρυσελά», romanized Vruselá. The village had 311 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks .
References
External links
Vrisera dance, 2016
{{Greeks in Albania
Villages in Gjirokastër County
Greek communities in Albania