Finiq

Finiq is a settlement, considered a town or village, and municipality in , in southern Albania located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the border.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: municipality of Albania
  • Also known as: “Finiq municipality”, “Komuna e Finiqit”, and “Komuna Finiq”
  • Address: BASHKIA FINIQ

Places of Interest

Highlights include Archeological Park of Phoinike and St. Nicholas Monastary Church.

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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 .

Church
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St. Nicholas Monastery Church is the katholikon of the abandoned Orthodox monastery of Saint George in , , . is situated 3½ km east of Finiq.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sarandë and Delvine.

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, the gateway to southern , is a small town of about 33,000 inhabitants, situated on a beautiful horseshoe bay between the mountains and the Ionian Sea.

Town
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Delvinë is a town and a municipality in , southern , 16 kilometres northeast of . It was formed in the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Delvinë and , which became municipal units. is situated 6 km northeast of Finiq.

Village
is a in , southwestern . It is part of the Finiq municipality.

Finiq

Latitude
39.9058° or 39° 54′ 21″ north
Longitude
20.0576° or 20° 3′ 27″ east
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
Open location code
8GF2W345+82
Open­Street­Map ID
node 728424749
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
363364
Wiki­data ID
Q73664
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Waray—“Finiq” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Njësia administrative Finiq”
  • Azerbaijani: “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: “Финики”
  • Spanish: “Finiq”
  • Swedish: “Finiq”
  • Tatar: “Финич”
  • Turkish: “Finiq”
  • Ukrainian: “Фінік (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Фінік”
  • Vietnamese: “Finiq”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Finiq”

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