Zall-Reç 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 ...

, made up of seven villages : Kraj-Rec, Zall-Rec, Draj-Rec, Bardhaj Rec, Hurdhe-Rec, Gure-Rec and Ndershen. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dibër. The population at the 2011 census was 681.2011 census results
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Demographic history

The villages of ''Reçi i Madh'' and ''Reçi i Vogël'' appear in the Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as properties 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 Ismail 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 former settlement had a total household number of 20, while the latter only 10. From Reçi i Madh: ''Llazar Rusini'', ''Pal Reçi'', ''Peter Radi'', ''Gjergj Radi'', ''Nikolla Mandrosi'', ''Petër Sogoli'', ''Petër Reçi'', ''Gjon Mandrosi'', ''Gjon Reçi'', ''Andre Boçi'', ''Stjefen Torofta'', ''Tanush Sfojmiri'', ''Tanush Shengjiqi'', ''Andrea Krabili'', ''Lekë Bozi'', ''Pal Reçi'' the other, ''Petko Murizi'', ''Mir Reçi'', ''Gjon Kalja'', and ''Andre Sfojmiri''. From Reçi i Vogël: ''Lekë Reçi'', ''Petër Gjurvishniqi'', ''Lekë Sokoli'', ''Gjergj Pradiskllavi'', ''Llazar Reçi'', ''Gjon Reçi'', ''Laj Gjiraku'', ''Gjon Gamreci'', ''Kolë Reçi'', and '' Popo Pali''.

References

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