Selo, Dropull

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Selo
Σελλειό
Village
Selo is located in Albania
Selo
Selo
Coordinates: 39°50′47″N 20°20′39″E / 39.84639°N 20.34417°E / 39.84639; 20.34417
Country Albania
CountyGjirokastër
MunicipalityDropull
Elevation
579 m (1,900 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

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

Name

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In the Ottoman register of 1431, the placename is rendered as Selyani.[2] Linguists Max Vasmer and Yordan Zaimov state the village toponym is from a local name Селяни, Selyani derived from село, selo a Bulgarian word which means 'village' and the suffix яне, yane.[2] Linguist Xhelal Ylli writes it is difficult to determine whether Selo is the continuation of the assumed, old name Selo or the shortened form of Selyani.[2] For the first case, Ylli says the old document would only contain a resident's name, which is erroneously recorded as a village name in the Ottoman register.[2]

Demographics

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The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 285 in 1992.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d 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. 166. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
  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.