Klos ( sq-definite, Klosi) is a town and a municipality in
Dibër County, northern center
Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...
. It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities
Gurrë, Klos,
Suç and
Xibër, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town Klos. The total population is 16,618 (2011 census),
in a total area of 357.72 km
2.
The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 7,873.
[ Klos lies 28.5 kilometers (17¾ mi) from ]Tirana
Tirana ( , ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in Albania, largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills, with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest ov ...
and 14 kilometers (9 mi) from Burrel.
Demographic history
Klos (''Kilos'') is recorded in the Ottoman ''defter
A ''defter'' was a type of tax register and land cadastre in the Ottoman Empire.
Etymology
The term is derived from Greek , literally 'processed animal skin, leather, fur', meaning a book, having pages of goat parchment used along with papyrus ...
'' of 1467 as a '' hass-ı mir-liva'' and '' derbendci'' settlement in the vilayet
A vilayet (, "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 initiated b ...
of Mati. The village had a total of eight households represented by the following household heads: ''Kozma Kimiza'', ''Progon Shargjini'', ''Martin Doroza'', ''Gjin Doroza'', ''Dula Cukali'', ''Margjin Prifti'', ''Ilia Kimiza'', and ''Kola Kimiza''.
Sports
Klos has a football team known as FC Klosi, which competes in the Albanian Second Division
Albanian may refer to:
*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
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.
References
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Municipalities in Dibër County
Administrative units of Klos (municipality)
Towns in Albania