Blinisht is a village and a former municipality in the
Lezhë County
Lezhë County () is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The population as of 2021 was 120,678, in an area of 1,620 km².[Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...]
. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality
Lezhë
Lezhë (, sq-definite, Lezha) is a List of cities and towns in Albania, city in the Republic of Albania and seat of Lezhë County and Lezhë Municipality. It is one of Albania's List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously i ...
. The population at the 2023 census was 1,878.
Blinisht is located in the
Zadrima
Zadrima is an ethnographic region situated in north-western Albania between the cities of Shkodra and Lezha, located left of the Lower Drin which eventually drains into the Adriatic Sea from near Lezha.
Geography
The Zadrima Plain includes v ...
region and the municipal unit includes 7 settlements:
* Baqel
* Blinisht
*
Fishtë
*
Kodhel
*
Krajnë
* Piraj
* Troshan
History
The region has been subordinate both the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lezhë and
Roman Catholic Diocese of Sapë
The Diocese of Sapë (, ) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholicism in Albania, Catholic Church in Northern Albania. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolis (religious juri ...
.
People
*
Pjetër Zarishi
Pjetër Zarishi or Dom Pjeter Xarishi (1806 in Blinisht, Zadrima – 1866 in Kallmet, Lezhë) was an Albanian Mirditë Catholic priest and poet who established a tradition of the 19th century Catholic literature in northern Albania. He is al ...
(1806-1866), Albanian catholic priest and poet
References
Former municipalities in Lezhë County
Administrative units of Lezhë
Villages in Lezhë County
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