Mesopotam
Mesopotam is a village and a former commune in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Finiq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 2,790 residents
- Description: village and former municipality of Albania
- Also known as: “Mesapotami”, “Mesopotam i Poshtër”, and “Mesopótamo”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. Nicholas Monastary Church and Archeological Park of Phoinike.
St. Nicholas Monastary Church
Church
Photo: Decius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Nicholas Monastery Church is the katholikon of the abandoned Orthodox monastery of Saint George in Mesopotam, Vlorë County, Albania.
Archeological Park of Phoinike
Photo: Giuseppe.lepore4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Phoenice or Phoenike was an ancient Greek city in Epirus and capital of the Chaonians. It is located high on an almost impregnable hill commanding the fertile valley below and near the modern town of the same name, Finiq, in southern Albania. Archeological Park of Phoinike is situated 2½ km west of Mesopotam.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kranë and Kostar.
Kranë
Village
Kranë is a village in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.
Kostar
Village
Kostar is a village in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Delvinë.
Finiq
Village
Finiq is a settlement, considered a town or village, and municipality in Vlorë County, in southern Albania located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the Greek border. Finiq is situated 3 km west of Mesopotam.
Mesopotam
- Categories: bashkia and Communes of Albania
- Location: Komuna e Mesopotamit, Bashkia Finiq, Vlorë County, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Mesopotam” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Komuna Mesopotam”
- Albanian: “Njësia administrative Mesopotam”
- Cebuano: “Komuna e Mesopotamit”
- Dutch: “Mesopotam”
- French: “Mesopotam”
- German: “Mesopotam”
- German: “Mesopotami”
- Greek: “Μεσοπόταμος”
- Italian: “Mesopotam”
- Malay: “Mesopotam”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mesopotam”
- Polish: “Mesopotam”
- Portuguese: “Mesopotam”
- Spanish: “Mesopotam”
- Swedish: “Komuna e Mesopotamit”
- Turkish: “Mesopotam”
- Vietnamese: “Mesopotam”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mesopotam”
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