Kurbin is a municipality in

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 share ...

. It was created in 2015 by the merger of the former municipalities

Fushë Kuqe Fushë Kuqe is a village and a former municipality in the Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Kurbin Kurbin is a municipality in Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. ...

Laç Laç (; sq-definite, Laçi) is a town and a former Municipalities of Albania, municipality in Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision and the seat of the municipality Kurbin. It was the adm ...

Mamurras Mamuras ( sq-definite, Mamurasi) is a town and a former municipality in Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Kurbin. The population at the 2011 census was 15,284.

and Milot. The seat of the municipality is the town Laç. The total population is 46,291 (2011 census), in a total area of 276.25 km². It is coterminous with the former

Kurbin District Kurbin District () was one of the 36 districts of Albania, which were dissolved in July 2000 and replaced by 12 newly created counties. It had a population of 54,519 in 2001, and an area of . It is in the west of the country, and its capital was ...

History

Kurbin is recorded in the Ottoman ''defter'' of 1467 as a '' hass-ı mir-liva'' property in the vilayet of Kurbin. The settlement had only five households represented by the following household heads: ''Pal Marku'', ''Gjon Sakati'', ''Peter Smaka'', ''Gjergj Balshi'', and ''Peter Manesi''. The settlements of Delbnisht (recorded as ''Dhulbnishti''), Laç, Breshat, Kaçula, Mali i Bardhë (recorded as ''Malibard''), Selita, Gallatë (recorded as ''Galata''), ''Likapaji'' or ''Lugapaçi'' (modern Dauli), Smaka, and Madhësh all belonged to the vilayet of Kurbin.

Notable people

Paskal Trokshi Paskal Trokshi (1850–1917), it, Pasquale Trocsci, was a Catholic religious figure who served as Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Skopje from 1893 to 1908. Life Trokshi (first name varies as Pashk, Pashkal) was of Albanian ethnicity ...

– Religious figure. *

Prenk Pervizi Prenk Pervizi (4 May 1897 – 6 September 1977) was an Albanian military figure, General of the Albanian army, who also served as Minister of Defence for a short period during World War II. Pervizi attended the Military Academy in Vienna, Austr ...

– Albanian General.

References

Municipalities in Lezhë County {{Lezhë-geo-stub