Letëm 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 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 governmental reform of 2015, Letëm became a part of the municipality of

Librazhd Librazhd ( sq-definite, Librazhdi) is a town and a municipality in Elbasan County, eastern Albania. The municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Hotolisht, Librazhd, Lunik, Orenjë, Poli ...

and is under the municipal unit of

Lunik Lunik () is a band from Switzerland. There are currently three members. Lunik started in 1997 with Adi Amstutz, Luk Zimmermann, Mats Marti, Walo Müller and Anton Höglhammer. Singer Jaël joined the band in 1998 and Anton Höglhammer left the ...

Demographic History

Letëm (''Letimje'') 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 village 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. It had a total of 15 households represented by the following household heads: ''Berisha Porteviri'', ''Petër Gërdi'', '' Pop'' ''Bogdani'', ''Pop Petri'', ''Dimitri Gërdi'', ''Tiha Koshmani'', ''Nikolla Mastori'', ''Vaska Susjati'', ''Nikolla Mihalevi'', ''Petër Ejurina'', ''Dragon Augusti'', ''Dimitri Kadhapota'', ''Varsaq Vojko'', ''Gjergo Bojko'', ''Dimitri Kallogjeri'', ''Streze Varsaqi'', ''Gjergji Rajçini'', ''Vasko Martini'', ''Nikolla Erebica'', and ''Andrije Gërdi''.

References

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