Gurrë is a former commune in the

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, northern

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

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. The population at the 2011 census was 3,369.

Demographic history

Gurrë (''Gur'') is recorded 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 village in the ''

timar A timar was a land grant by the sultans of the Ottoman Empire between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, with an annual tax revenue of less than 20,000 akçes. The revenues produced from the land acted as compensation for military service. A ...

'' of Barak 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 Mati. The settlement had a total of nine households represented by the following household heads: ''Kolë Kibaj'', '' Dom Pali'', ''Gjon Guribardi'', ''Dom Andrija'', '' Mihal Girdepaj'', ''Gjergj Mizijo'', ''Todor Bila'', ''Buzi Bardi'', and ''Martin Bili'' (''Beli'').

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County Administrative units of Klos (municipality) {{Dibër-geo-stub