Muhurr is a village and a former municipality in the
Dibër County
Dibër County (; ) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania, spanning a surface area of with the capital in Peshkopi. The county borders on the counties of Durrës, Elbasan, Kukës, Lezhë, Tirana and the country of North Macedonia. ...
, northeastern
Albania
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. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality
Dibër. The population at the 2011 census was 2,780.
[2011 census results]
Demographic history
Muhurr (''Muhur'') 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 settlement 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 Lower Dibra. The village had a total of 18 households which were represented by the following household heads: ''
Pop
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Pop music, a musical genre
Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop! (British group), a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Album ...
Llazari'', son of ''Gjoni''; ''Stanisha'', son of ''Leka''; ''Martini'', son of ''Gjoni''; ''Kola'', son of ''Nikolla''; ''Llazari'', son of ''Vlashi''; ''Dimitri'', son of ''Gjoni''; ''Andrea'', son of ''Llazari''; ''Pop Mëhilli''; ''Gjoni'', son of ''Gjergji''; ''Gjoni'', son of ''Leka''; ''Leka'', son of ''Gjergji''; ''Llazari'', son of ''Dimitri''; ''Gjoni'', son of ''Leka''; ''Gjini'', son of ''Progoni''; ''Lumsha'', son of ''Gjoni''; ''Todori'', son of ''Gjoni''; ''Gjoni'', son of ''Mizi''; and ''Sik Marini''.
References
Former municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Dibër (municipality)
Villages in Dibër County
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