Finiq

Finiq

Finiqi ( _sq. Finiq or Finiqi, _el. Φοινίκη) is a small village in Southern Albania located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the Greek border. Its inhabitants speak Greek [Encyclopedia Of Ancient Greece by Nigel Guy Wilson,ISBN 0415973341,2006,page 266,"at Phoenice (modern Finiq) in the Greek- speaking part of southern Albania"] [Badlands-Borderland: A History of Southern Albania/Northern Epirusby T.J. Winnifrith,ISBN-10: 0715632019,2003,Page 69,"... 16. Greek-speaking children in modern Finiq ..."] as mother tongue. It is the center of the commune of Finiq, which comprises six other villages: Vrion, Vromero, Karahaxh, Shënjan or Shijan, Mavropull and Çlirim (former SMT). Tha majority of its population lives now in Greece (mainly in Athens, at Gyzi area), where they settled after the year 1991.Fact|date=August 2008

*For the ancient site see Phoenice

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