Cudhi is a former municipality in the

Durrës County Durrës County (), officially the County of Durrës (), is a Counties of Albania, county in the Northern Albania, Northern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the smallest by area and the List of counties of Albania by population, second mos ...

, western

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. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality

Krujë Krujë ( sq-definite, Kruja; see also the etymology section) is a town and a municipality in north-central Albania. Located between Mount Krujë and the Ishëm River, the city is 20 km north of the capital of Albania, Tirana. Krujë was ...

. The population at the 2011 census was 1,812.

Demographic history

Cudhi (''Çizin'') appears in the Ottoman ''

defter A ''defter'' was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. Etymology The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus ...

'' of 1467 as a '' hass-ı mir-liva'' property in the

vilayet A vilayet (, "province"), also known by #Names, various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement initiated b ...

of Akçahisar. The settlement had a total of seven households represented by the following household heads: ''Martin Çataj'', ''Dimitri Bardi'', ''Martin Çataj'', ''Vlad Shtjafni'', ''Gjergj Bozhaj'', ''Oliver Indi'', and ''Gjon Ozguri''.

References

Administrative units of Krujë Former municipalities in Durrës County Populated places disestablished in 2015 {{Durrës-geo-stub