Petran

Petran
Administrative Unit
Petran
Coordinates: 40°12′N 20°24′E / 40.200°N 20.400°E / 40.200; 20.400Coordinates: 40°12′N 20°24′E / 40.200°N 20.400°E / 40.200; 20.400
Country  Albania
County Gjirokastër
Municipality(s) Përmet
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)

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]

Demographics

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

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ Law nr. 115/2014 Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ 2011 census results Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ http://www.2-albania.com
  4. ↑ Greece – Albania Neighbourhood Programme Archived 2012-03-27 at the Wayback Machine.
  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. ↑ Vatra e kulturës (in Albanian). Shtëpija Qëndrore e Krijimtarisë Popullore. 1969. p. 30.

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