Maliçan (, ; romanized: Máltsiani) is a small village in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.
Name Linguist Yordan Zaimov derives the toponym from a village name, Малка, Malka (small), in reference to a долина, dolina (valley) and the suffix -яне, -yane with the Slavic sound change of k and y into ch.
History The village has around 16 churches (most ruined), with the most known being the Church of Panagia, dating back to the end of the 16th century.Η εκκλησία της Παναγίας στην Μάλτσιανη [The Church of Panagia in Maltsiani], agioritikovima.gr, 03/07/2012, retrieved on 19/02/2015 Stavrianos Vistiaris, a poet was possibly born in Maliçan, in the 16th or 17th century.Epirus, 4000 years of Greek history and civilization M. V. Sakellariou. Ekdotike Athenon, 1997 , p. 410
In the late 19th century, the village belonged to the kaza of Delvinë. In April 1944 the village was burned by the Germans.
Demographics According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 148 inhabitants in 1895.Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895" στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 286 The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 295 in 1992.
References
External links The 16th century Greek-Orthodox Church of Maltsiani Video showing the village