Pepel, Albania Explained

Type:	v
Official Name:	Pepel
Other Name:	Πέπελη
County:	Gjirokastër
Municipality:	Dropull
Coordinates:	39.8714°N 20.3294°W
Elevation:	500
Website:	www.pepeli.gr

Pepel (Albanian: Papeli, Greek, Modern (1453-);: Πέπελη; romanized: Pépeli) is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.^[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.^[2] It is inhabited solely by Greeks.^[3]

Holy Trinity Monastery Church is located within the village, a Religious Cultural Monument of Albania.^[4]

Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 392 inhabitants in 1895.^[5] The village had 505 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks.

External links

• Different views of Pepel

Notes and References

1. Web site: Location of Pepel.
2. Web site: Law nr. 115/2014 . sq . 6371. 25 February 2022 .
3. Web site: Kallivretakis. Leonidas. Η Ελληνική Κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το Πρίσμα της Ιστορικής Γεωγραφίας και Δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in Terms of Historical Geography and Demography]]. Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. 2 February 2015. 58. Greek. 1995.
4. Web site: Religious buildings with the "Culture Monument" status . Republic of Albania National Committee for Cult . October 28, 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110706071224/http://kshk.gov.al/index.php?fq=brenda&gj=gj2&kid=19 . July 6, 2011 .
5. Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895" στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 277