Zall-Bastar () is a village and administrative unit in the

municipality of Tirana Tirana ( , ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in Albania, largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills, with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest ov ...

, central

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. As of the 2011 census, the administrative unit of Zall-Bastar had an estimated population of 3,380 of whom 1,732 were men and 1,648 women.

Demographic history

the village of ''Bastari'' 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 part of 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 Mustafa in the

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level divisi ...

of Benda. It was a relatively small settlement with a total of only five households which were represented by: ''Miho Manesi'', ''Gjon Guribardi'', ''Gjergj Shurbi'', ''Kola Zhari'', and '' Dom Miho''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zall-Herr Villages in Tirana County Administrative units of Tirana Former municipalities in Tirana County