Gajush is a village in the

Lezhë County Lezhë County ( sq, Qarku i Lezhës) is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The population as of 2021 was 120,678, in an area of 1620 km².

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

. Following the local government reform of 2015, Gajush became a part of the municipality of Lezhë and is under the municipal unit of Shënkoll.

Demographic History

Gajush (''Gajpi'') is attested in the Ottoman ''defter'' of 1467 as a '' hass-ı mir-liva'' property 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 Dimitri Gjonima. The total number of households present in the settlement is missing, however, the following household heads are recorded: ''Gjon Bardi'', ''Pal Dida'', ''Lesh Trasha'', ''Lumsha Aleksi'', and ''Gjin Slani''.

References

{{Lezhë div Administrative units of Lezhë Villages in Lezhë County