Cerkovicë

Cerkovicë

Τσερκοβίτσα
Cerkovicë Τσερκοβίτσα
Village
	Cerkovicë
	Coordinates: 39°49′37″N 20°12′28″E / 39.82694°N 20.20778°E
Country	Albania
County	Vlorë
Municipality	Finiq
Administrative unit	Dhivër
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Cerkovicë (Albanian definite form: Cerkovica; Greek: Τσερκοβίτσα, Tserkovitsa) is a village in the Vlorë County in Albania.^[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Finiq.^[2]

Name

The toponym Cerkovicë refers to a place where a church is located and is derived from the Bulgarian word церква/черква, tserkva/cherkva for 'church' and the suffix ов-иц-а, ov-its-a.^[3]

Demographics

The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 580 in 1992.^[4]

Nearest places

References

↑ "Cerkovica". getamap.net. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2010-03-06.
↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
↑ 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. 98. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
↑ 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. 53. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.

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[1] "Cerkovica". getamap.net. Archived from the original on 2012-02-24. Retrieved 2010-03-06.

[2] "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6376. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

[Ylli98-3] 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. 98. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.

[Kallivretakis53-4] 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. 53. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.

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