Kurbin
Municipality
Official logo of Kurbin
Emblem
Kurbin is located in Albania
Kurbin
Kurbin
Coordinates: 41°38′N 19°43′E / 41.633°N 19.717°E / 41.633; 19.717
Country Albania
CountyLezhë
Government
 • MayorMajlinda Cara (PS)
Area
 • Municipality276.25 km2 (106.66 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Municipality
46,291
 • Municipality density170/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal Code
4701-4702
Area Code(0)53
Websitewww.bashkiakurbin.gov.al

Kurbin is a municipality in Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. It was created in 2015 by the merger of the former municipalities Fushë Kuqe, Laç, Mamurras and Milot. The seat of the municipality is the town Laç.[1] The total population is 46,291 (2011 census),[2] in a total area of 276.25 km2.[3] It is coterminous with the former Kurbin District.

Etymology

The Latin form of the place was Corvinus which makes a relationship between the place and the Latin word Corvus (raven) possible.[4]

History

Kurbin is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a hass-ı mir-liva property in the vilayet of Kurbin. The settlement had only five households represented by the following household heads: Pal Marku, Gjon Sakati, Peter Smaka, Gjergj Balshi, and Peter Manesi. The settlements of Delbnisht (recorded as Dhulbnishti), Laç, Breshat, Kaçula, Mali i Bardhë (recorded as Malibard), Selita, Gallatë (recorded as Galata), Likapaji or Lugapaçi (modern Dauli), Smaka, and Madhësh all belonged to the vilayet of Kurbin.[5]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6373–6374. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  2. ↑ "Population and housing census - Lezhë 2011" (PDF). INSTAT. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ↑ "Correspondence table LAU – NUTS 2016, EU-28 and EFTA / available Candidate Countries" (XLS). Eurostat. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  4. ↑ Robert Elsie. Fiset Shqiptare - Historia, shoqëria dhe kultura (in Albanian). p. 306. ISBN 9789951690546.
  5. ↑ Caka, Eduart (2019). Defteri i hollësishëm për zonat e dibrës i vitit 1467. Tiranë: Akademia e studimeve albanologjike instituti historisë. pp. 20–5.


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