Finiq
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,330 residents
- Description: municipality of Albania
- Also known as: “Eniki”, “Fenichi”, “Finik”, “Finiq municipality”, and “Firiq”
- Address: BASHKIA FINIQ
Places of Interest
Highlights include Archeological Park of Phoinike and St. Nicholas Monastary Church.
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.
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. St. Nicholas Monastary Church is situated 3½ km east of Finiq.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karahaxhë and Vrion.
Karahaxhë
Village
Karahaxhë is a small village in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.
Vrion
Village
Vrion is a village in Vlorë County, southwestern Albania. It is part of the municipality Finiq. It is located to the east of Sarandë, next to the village of Metoq. Vrion is situated 3 km south of Finiq.
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. Kranë is situated 3 km southeast of Finiq.
Finiq
- Categories: Communes of Albania, bashkia, and locality
- Location: Komuna e Finiqit, Bashkia Finiq, Vlorë County, Albania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.90576° or 39° 54′ 21″ northLongitude
20.05756° or 20° 3′ 27″ eastPopulation
1,330Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)Open location code
8GF2W345+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 728424749OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
363363Wikidata ID
Q73664
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Finiq” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Njësia administrative Finiq”
- Catalan: “Finiq”
- Chinese: “腓尼基”
- Dutch: “Finiq”
- French: “Commune Finiq”
- French: “Finiq”
- German: “Finiq”
- German: “Finiqi”
- German: “Njësia administrative Finiq”
- Greek: “Φινίκι”
- Greek: “Φοινίκη”
- Italian: “Finiq”
- Japanese: “フィニチ”
- Korean: “피니치”
- Latin: “Phoenice (Albania)”
- Latin: “Phoenice”
- Macedonian: “Фојник”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Finiq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Finiq”
- Norwegian: “Finiq”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Finiq”
- Persian: “فینیق”
- Polish: “Finiq”
- Portuguese: “Finiq”
- Russian: “Финик”
- Russian: “Финикь”
- Spanish: “Finiq”
- Swedish: “Finiq”
- Tatar: “Финич”
- Turkish: “Finiq”
- Ukrainian: “Фінік (місто)”
- Ukrainian: “Фінік”
- Vietnamese: “Finiq”
- Waray (Philippines): “Finiq”
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