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Dervishi (surname)

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Dervishi is a modern Albanian surname of Persian origin from "darvish (درویش, Darvīsh or "Darwish" in Arabic), that entered Albanian from the Turkish adaption "Derviş" (Dervish). Notable people with the surname include:

  • Erald Dervishi (born 1979), Albanian chess grandmaster
  • Qazim Dervishi (1908–1994), Albanian soccer player and international referee
  • Teki Dervishi (1943–2011), ethnic-Albanian poet, novelist and playwright