Radat, Dropull

Radat

Ραντάτι
Radat Ραντάτι
Village
	Radat
	Coordinates: 39°57′3″N 20°19′56″E / 39.95083°N 20.33222°E
Country	Albania
County	Gjirokastër
Municipality	Dropull
Elevation	508 m (1,667 ft)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Radat (Albanian definite form: Radati, Greek: Ραντάτι) is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.^[1]

Name

The toponym Radat is derived from either a personal name Радот, Radot, from the forms Радота, Radota and Радотин, Radotin, along with a jъ, ya sound.^[2] Linguist Xhelal Ylli states the Bulgarian sound change t into y and then sht is missing.^[2] He writes the toponym could be a name from a personal name without suffixation or an Albanian, as the name giver.^[2] However, the sound change o into a is difficult to explain; also, the Slavic personal name is stressed on the first syllable and not like the Albanian place name on the last syllable.^[2] An explanation as an Albanian formation cannot be ruled out from a Bulgarian personal name Рад, Rad and an Albanian suffix at.^[2]

Demographics

The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 113 in 1992.^[3]

References

↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
1 2 3 4 5 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. 159. 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. 58. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.

[1] "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

[Ylli159-2] 1 2 3 4 5 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. 159. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.

[Kallivretakis58-3] 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.

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