Tragjas

Tragjas is a community in the Vlorë County, southwestern Albania.

[1] With the 2015 local government reform, it became part of the municipality Vlorë.

[2] The village has been inhabited since ancient times where the ruins of the city of Sofa are located near old Tragjas dating to the Illyrian tribes to the IV century BCE.

The village continued to join local rebellions during the following years: 1537,1581,1833 and 1847 and in 1912 it supported greatly the Albanian founding fathers.

During World War II, Tragjas was part of the battlefield of the battle of Gjorm, where Albanian resistance units defeated and routed the troops of the Kingdom of Italy.