Dragostunjë is a village in the

Elbasan County Elbasan County () is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The population is 266,245 (2021), in an area of 3199 km². Its capital is the city Elbasan. Administrative divisions Until 2000, Elbasan County was subdivided into four districts: Elbas ...

, eastern Albania. Following the local government reform of 2015, Dragostunjë became a part of the municipality of Librazhd and is under the municipal unit of

Qendër Librazhd Qendër Librazhd is a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Librazhd Librazhd ( sq-definite, Librazhdi) is a town and a municipality in Elbasan C ...

Demographic History

Dragostunjë is attested in the Ottoman ''

defter A ''defter'' (plural: ''defterler'') was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire. Description The information collected could vary, but ''tahrir defterleri'' typically included details of villages, dwellings, household ...

'' of 1467 as a settlement in the

vilayet A vilayet ( ota, , "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 init ...

of Çermeniça. The village had a total of nine households represented by the following household heads: '' Pop'' ''Jovani'', ''Bogdan Primiqyri'', ''Bogdan Berishi'', ''Andrija Berishi'', ''Gjergj Vasili'', ''Kojo Prifti'', ''Miri'' son of ''Todor'', ''Todor'' son of ''Bogdan'', and ''Dimitri Begoj''.

References

{{Librazhd div Villages in Elbasan County Populated places in Librazhd