Progon

Progon is a native Albanian name. It is found as a personal name and toponym. Its forms include Progër and Progjen.

People with the name include:

• Progoni family, who established the first documented Albanian state, the Principality of Arbanon
• Progon, Lord of Kruja, a late 12th-century Byzantine-Albanian lord and first known Albanian ruler
• Progonos Sgouros, a Byzantine Albanian senior military commander

See also

• Progonat, a village in the Kurvelesh region, whose name contains the Albanian suffix -at, commonly used in toponyms
• Progër, a village near Korçë

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