Luzni 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 2,433.2011 census results

Demographic history

Luzni (''Luzina'') appears in the Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as a settlement 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 the local Albanians Mihail, Progon, and Oliver 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 village was large and had a total of 46 households, represented by the following household heads: ''Gjin Potraqi'', ''Gjergji'' brother of ''Gjini'', ''Domenik Luzi'', ''Dimitri Luri'', ''Kolë Pratkori'', ''Kolë Luzi'', ''Kolë Gramatiku'', ''Mihal Kamja'', ''Kolë Gëraçi'', ''Andre Luzi'', ''Dimitri Luzi'', ''Llazar Prodani'', ''Petkë Kakrruku'', '' Pop Bezhani'', ''Dabi Kondi'', ''Gjergj Palasha'', ''Kolë Pallamaji'', ''Gjon Ustadi'', ''Pandi Damiza'', ''Kolë Çodila'', ''Dimitri Çodila'', ''Lekë Damiza'', ''Todor Shunbati'', ''Oliver Koçi'' (possibly, ''Kuçi''), ''Gjin Mavro'', ''Mihal Koçi'', ''Gjin Prasha'', ''Lal Koçi'', ''Gjuro Luzi'', ''Andrije Irahamishi'', ''Petër Vavila'', ''Pal Ruçi'', ''Kolë Mamiza'', ''Gjon Kudhoni'', ''Marko Kadha'', ''Gjon Koraqi'', ''Pop Gjoni'', ''Radi'' brother of '' Pop Gjoni'', ''Miriaka Karufada'', ''Gjergj Zhatkori'', ''Gjon Graçi'' (possibly, ''Vraçi''), ''Dimitri Xhudhoni'', ''Tanush Kudhoni'', ''Bard Kudhoni'', ''Domenik Filipi'', and ''Gjon Gjonema''.

References

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