{{Infobox settlement AL |type = v |official_name = Iljas |other_name = |image_flag = |image_shield = |image_skyline = |image_caption = |image_location = |county = Vlorë |municipality = Himarë |municunit = Himarë |leader_name = |leader_party = |coordinates = {{coord|40|8|34|N|19|40|16|E|type:adm1st_region:AL_dim:100000|display=inline,title}} |elevation = |elevation_min = |elevation_max = |area_total = |population_as_of = |population_total = |postal_code = |area_code = |car_plates = |website = }} '''Iljas''' ({{lang-sq-definite|Iljasi}}; {{IPA|sq|iˈljas}} {{small|or}} {{IPA|sq|iˈljasi|}}) is a village in Himarë municipality (13 kilometres from the town), Vlorë County, southern Albania.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |title=Law nr. 115/2014 |language=sq |pages=6376|access-date=25 February 2022 }}</ref> It is located near the Ionian coast on the Albanian Riviera.
== Demographics == The village of Iljas is inhabited by an Eastern Orthodox Albanian population.<ref name= Kallivretakis>Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "[http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/handle/10442/8696 Η ελληνική κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το πρίσμα της ιστορικής γεωγραφίας και δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in terms of historical geography and demography]." In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). ''Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]''. University of Athens. p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί"; p.53. "ILIASI ΙΛΙΑΣ 124 ΑΧ"</ref>
==History== In 1720, the villages of Himara, Palasë, Ilias, Vuno, Pilur and Qeparo refused to submit to the Pasha of Delvina.<ref>{{cite book|title=Etnografia shqiptare|volume=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nusRAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Akademia e Shkencave e RPSH, Instituti i Historisë, Sektori i Etnografisë|page=199}}</ref> In 1722, the Italian-Arberëshë missionary Giuseppe Schirò, wrote that Albanians inhabited Ilias.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Bartl |first=Peter |title=Zur Topographie und Geschichte der Landschaft Himara in Südalbanien |journal=Münchner Zeitschrift für Balkankunde |date=1991 |page=331 |volume=7–8 |isbn=9783878281962 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSlpAAAAMAAJ |issn=0170-8929 |language=de}}</ref>
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Category:Populated places in Himarë Category:Villages in Vlorë County Category:Albanian Ionian Sea Coast Category:Labëria