Grapsh Explained

Type:	v
Official Name:	Grapsh
Other Name:	Γράψη
County:	Gjirokastër
Municipality:	Dropull
Coordinates:	39.9544°N 20.2481°W
Elevation:	230

Grapsh (Albanian: Grapshi; Greek, Modern (1453-);: Γράψη; romanized: Grápsi) is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.^[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.^[2] It is inhabited solely by Greeks.^[3]

Demographics

In the Ottoman register of 1520 for the Sanjak of Avlona, Grapsh was attested a village in the region of Dropull. The village had a total of 60 households and the anthroponymy attested belonged almost entirely to the Albanian onomastic sphere, characterised by personal names such as Bardh, Deda, Gjin, Gjon, Kola, Leka, and others. The village also had a small number Muslim households.^[4]

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 341 inhabitants in 1895.^[5] The village had 512 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks.

External links

• Different views of Grapsh

Notes and References

1. Web site: Location of Grapsh.
2. Web site: Law nr. 115/2014 . sq . 6371. 25 February 2022 .
3. Web site: Kallivretakis. Leonidas. 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]]. Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. 2 February 2015. 58. Greek. 1995.
4. Duka . Ferit . La Realite Ethnique De Dropull Dans Les Sources Historiques Du XVI Siecle . Studia Albanica . 1990 . 2 . 22-23 .
5. 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. 277