Gajush is a village 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 ...

. Following the local government reform of 2015, Gajush became a part of the municipality of

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 ...

and is under the municipal unit of Shënkoll.

Demographic History

Gajush (''Gajpi'') is attested in the Ottoman ''defter'' 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 Dimitri Gjonima. The total number of households present in the settlement is missing, however, the following household heads are recorded: ''Gjon Bardi'', ''Pal Dida'', ''Lesh Trasha'', ''Lumsha Aleksi'', and ''Gjin Slani''.

References

{{Lezhë div Administrative units of Lezhë Villages in Lezhë County