Lefter Talo (village) explained

Lefter Talo
Other Name:	Λευτέρη Τάλλιου
Type:	v
County:	Vlorë
Municipality:	Finiq
Municunit:	Livadhe

Lefter Talo (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Λευτέρη Τάλλιος) is a village in the former commune of Livadhe, Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality of Finiq.^[1] At 1993 the total population of the village was 178, all of them part of the Greek community in Albania.

Name

The name Lefter Talo (Lefteris Talios in Greek) was given to the village by the authorities of the People's Republic of Albania to honour Lefter Talo, a local World War II Albanian resistance leader of Greek ethnicity.^[2] (Hero of the People recipient). He was known as one of the most prominent members in the Chameria battalion of the Albanian National Liberation Front.^[3] The former name of the village was Hajdëragas and was of Albanian origin^[4] with its suffix (-aga) coming from the Turkish title agha.^[2] At the Ottoman registers of 1895 it was recorded as Hadir-aga or Haidar-aga.^[5] It derived from the name of an Ottoman-era landowner who was in possession of the settlement.^[6]

References

1. Web site: Law nr. 115/2014 . sq . 6376. 25 February 2022 .
2. Kofos . Evangelos . The Greek minority school textbooks during the Enver Hoxha period . Balkan Studies . 1 January 1993 . 34 . 1 . 95 . 14 September 2022 . en . 2241-1674 . A hamlet near Vourko, in the Aghioi Saranta district, formerly known as Handiraga (from the Turkish title “aga”) was re-named “Lefteris Tallios” (indicating that it was Greek) in honour of the leader of a band of guerilla fighters from the Greek community.
3. Book: Murzaku, Thoma . Hoxha . Teuta . Trenova . Bashkim . Heronj të Luftës Antifashiste Nacionalçlirimtare: përmbledhje dokumentesh . Shtëpia Botuese "8 Nëntori" . 1986 . 251 . Lefteri, djali revolucionar i Vurgut, anëtar i Partisë Komuniste Shqiptare, një nga bijtë më të mirë të minoritetit.... Punoi me fjalë e propagandë në Vurg dhe pastaj me formimin e çetës së Çamërisë, Lefteri u hodh i pari në të, u bë një nga shokët udhëheqës më të mirë të saj.
4. Demiraj. Shaban. Shaban Demiraj. La situation ethnique-linguistique des habitants de Dropulli et de Vurgu au cours des siecles. Studia Albanica. Academy of Sciences of Albania. 0585-5047. 1. 2008. 77–91.
5. Book: Κοκολάκης . Μιχάλης . Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895 . 26 June 2008 . 287 . 29 September 2022.
6. Book: Κοκολάκης . Μιχάλης . Το ύστερο Γιαννιώτικο Πασαλίκι: χώρος, διοίκηση και πληθυσμός στην τουρκοκρατούμενη Ηπειρο (1820-1913) . 3 November 2020 . 2003. Κέντρο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών, (Ε.Ι.Ε.) . 10442/8080 . 9789607916112 . 248.