Shëngjin i Vogël is a village in the former

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

of Zall-Bastar in Tirana County,

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. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality

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Demographic History

Shëngjin i Vogël (''Shëngjin'') is recorded in the Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as a settlement in the

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of Benda. The village had a total of five households represented by the following household heads: ''Nikolla Çuroji'', ''Tat Gjika'', ''Vlash Bardi'', ''Martin Rakizi'', and ''Dimitri Çuroji''.

References

Populated places in Tirana Villages in Tirana County {{Tirana-geo-stub