Petran

Petran

Petran

Municipal unit in Gjirokastër, Albania

Petran is a village and a former municipality in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Përmet.[1] The population at the 2011 census was 1,622.[2] The municipal unit consists of the villages Petran, Leshnicë, Leusë, Lipë, Qilarishtë, Badilonjë, Benjë-Novoselë, Delvinë, Kaludh, Lupckë, Gjinakar (Gjinkar), Ogdunan, Isgar, Lipivan-Trabozishtë, Tremisht and Bodar. There are a couple of restaurants that look out over the Vjosa river.[3][4]

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Demographics

The village of Lipë is inhabited by inhabitants whose mother tongue is Albanian.[5]

Notable people

References

  1. [1]
    "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. [2]
    2011 census results Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Tour and Travel Agency in Albania | 2-Albania". Archived from the original on 2017-04-08. Retrieved 2022-07-16.
  4. [4]
    Greece – Albania Neighbourhood Programme Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine
  5. [5]
    Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière (1967). Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 274–275. ISBN 9780198142539. "I visited Lipa and found that all the inhabitants spoke Albanian as their native tongue."
  6. [6]
    Vatra e kulturës (in Albanian). Shtëpija Qëndrore e Krijimtarisë Popullore. 1969. p. 30.

Sources

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