Grazhdan

The possible derivations of Grazhdan are from either from a resident’s name, itself from the Bulgarian град, grad for 'city' and the suffix -яне, -yane with the meaning 'an inhabitant of the city' and the Bulgarian sound change d and y into zhd.^[3] Or from an Albanian formation from grazhd meaning 'manger' borrowed from the Slavic гражд, grazhd for 'sheepfold', and the suffix an.^[3] Linguist Xhelal Ylli writes the stress on the first syllable in both cases does not match the corresponding formation type for the placename.^[3]

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 117 inhabitants in 1895.^[4]

The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 600 in 1992.^[5]

• Nikolaos Stavrou (1935 - 2011) (el), Greek American author and professor at Howard University.^[6]