{{Short description|Greek author}} '''Georgios Dimitriou'''<ref>also spelled Yeorgios Demetriou</ref> ({{langx|el|Γεώργιος Δημητρίου}}) was a Greek 18th-century author and scholar.

Dimitriou came from one of the notable and literate families of Gjirokaster, then Ottoman Empire.<ref name=Giakoumis>{{cite journal |last1=Konstantinos |first1=Giakoumis |title=The monasteries of Jorgucat and Vanishte in Dropull and of Spelaio in Lunxheri as monuments and institutions during the Ottoman period in Albania (16th-19th centuries) |date=2002 |page=s 211–212 |url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390688 |accessdate=8 July 2018 |archive-date=16 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200716134844/https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390688 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was a native of that city, today located in southern Albania. He lived at the time when Ali Pasha was the local Ottoman ruler of Epirus. In 1783, he sent a report to the Austrian Empire that described Ali Pasha's background and the activities of his irregular troops in the region.<ref name=Skiotis/>

Dimitriou published two works. One in 1783, entitled ''Περιγραφή της Βόρειας Αλβανίας και Βόρειας Ηπείρου'' (Description of Northern Albania and Northern Epirus), which is considered of considerable historical value today.<ref name=Skiotis>{{cite journal|last=Skiotis|first=Dennis N.|title=From Bandit to Pasha: first Steps in the Rise to Power of Ali of Tepelen, 1750-1784|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|year=1971|volume=2|issue=3|pages=219–244|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/37359395/From-Bandit-to-Pasha|accessdate=16 October 2011|doi=10.1017/s0020743800001112|s2cid=159559591 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1785, he published in Venice a bilingual Greek-Latin Grammar that contained personal observations, Epistles and Maxims, as well as biographies of notable men. This work was in fact a collection of chrestomathy under the guise of a bilingual grammar.<ref>{{cite book|last=Merry|first=Bruce|title=Encyclopedia of modern Greek literature|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Press|location=Westport, Conn. [u.a.]|isbn=978-0-313-30813-0|pages=70|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-lr20SuvfIC&pg=PA394 |edition=1. publ.}}</ref> It was dedicated to Alexander II Mavrokordatos "Firaris", ruler of Moldavia.<ref name=Giakoumis/>

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==External links== *[http://anemi.lib.uoc.gr/metadata/0/8/6/metadata-155-0000034.tkl Γραμματική Ελληνολατινίς εκ διαφόρων συλλεχθείσα, / παρά Γεωργίου, του Δημητρίου του Προσκ. Κυρ. Ευπατρίδους του εξ Αργυροκάστρου]. Bilingual Greek-Latin Grammar by Georgios Dimitriou, Venice 1785.

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