Llongo

Llongo
Λόγγος
Village
Llongo is located in Albania
Llongo
Llongo
Location within Albania
Coordinates: 39°50′05″N 20°22′39″E / 39.83472°N 20.37750°E / 39.83472; 20.37750
Country Albania
CountyGjirokastër
MunicipalityDropull
Elevation
580 m (1,900 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Llongo (Albanian definite form: Llongoja; Greek: Λόγγος, romanized: Lóggos) is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.

Name

The placename Llongo is derived from the word 'meadow', rendered in Old Slavic as лжгъ, lag and лъг, lăg in Bulgarian where through old Albanian the reflex ж became on within the toponym.

Demographics

The village is inhabited by Greeks, and the population was 476 in 1992.

References

  1. ↑ "Location of Llongo".
  2. ↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ↑ Ylli, Xhelal (1997). Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen. Teil 2: Ortsnamen [Slavic Loan Material in Albanian. Part 2: Placenames] (PDF) (in German). Verlag Otto Sagner. p. 139. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
  4. ↑ 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.