Kurbin is a municipality in Lezhë County, northwestern

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 ...

. It was created in 2015 by the merger of the former municipalities Fushë Kuqe,

Laç Laç (; sq-definite, Laçi) is a town and a former Municipalities of Albania, municipality in Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision and the seat of the municipality Kurbin. It was the ad ...

, Mamurras and Milot. The seat of the municipality is the town Laç. The total population at the 2023 census was 34,405, in a total area of 276.25 km². It is coterminous with the former Kurbin District.

Etymology

The Latin form of the place was ''Corvinus'' which makes a relationship between the place and the Latin word ''Corvus'' (raven) possible.

History

Kurbin is recorded 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 Kurbin. The settlement had only five households represented by the following household heads: ''Pal Marku'', ''Gjon Sakati'', ''Peter Smaka'', ''Gjergj Balshi'', and ''Peter Manesi''. The settlements of Delbnisht (recorded as ''Dhulbnishti''), Laç, Breshat, Kaçula, Mali i Bardhë (recorded as ''Malibard''), Selita, Gallatë (recorded as ''Galata''), ''Likapaji'' or ''Lugapaçi'' (modern Dauli), Smaka, and Madhësh all belonged to the vilayet of Kurbin.

Notable people

* Paskal Trokshi – Religious figure. * Prenk Pervizi – Albanian General.

References

Municipalities in Lezhë County {{Lezhë-geo-stub