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Lurë is a former municipality in the
Dibër County Dibër County (; sq, Qarku i Dibrës) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania, spanning a surface area of with the capital in Peshkopi. The county borders on the counties of Durrës, Elbasan, Kukës, Lezhë, Tirana and the ...
, northeastern
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 ...
. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dibër. The population at the 2011 census was 1,096.2011 census results
The region of Lurë is inhabited by the Albanian Lura
tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...
. Old Lurë (), Lurë Plain () and Borie Lurë, are the three neighborhoods of Lurë. More villages are in the municipality of Lurë such as Krej Lurë, Pregj Lurë, Arrmall, Vlashe and Gur Lure. With an area of 1,280 hectares, the
Lurë National Park Lurë is a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dibër. The population at the 2011 census was 1,096.

Demographic history

Lurë appears in the
Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as a village in 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 ...
of Ali Vardari in the
vilayet A vilayet ( ota, , "province"), also known by 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 initiated ...
of Lower Dibra. The settlement had a total of nine households represented by the following household heads: '' Pop Sima''; ''Mirko'', brother of ''Pop Sima''; ''Gjergj Limaçi''; ''Martini'', son of ''Gjergji''; ''Shtjefan Matarisi''; ''Gjon Gjerboçi''; ''Peter Smaqi'' (''Zmaqi''); and ''Tolë Miçoqi''.


Notable people

* Nikollë Kaçorri


References

Former municipalities in Dibër County Administrative units of Dibër (municipality) {{Dibër-geo-stub