Pilur Explained

Type:	v
Official Name:	Pilur
County:	Vlorë
Municipality:	Himarë
Municunit:	Himarë
Coordinates:	40.1286°N 19.775°W

Pilur is a village on the Albanian Riviera in Vlorë County, Albania.^[1] It is part of the Himarë municipality.^[2]

Demographics

The village of Pilur is inhabited exclusively by an Albanian-speaking Orthodox Albanian population.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Location of Pilur. 2010-06-20.
2. Web site: Law nr. 115/2014 . sq . 6376. 25 February 2022 .
3. Book: Hammond, Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière. Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas. 1967. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 9780198142539. 124. "Pilur, a village of 105 houses, which is Albanian-speaking"
4. Book: Etnografia shqiptare. 15. 1987. Akademia e Shkencave e RPSH, Instituti i Historisë, Sektori i Etnografisë. 199.
5. Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "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]." In Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]. University of Athens. p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί"; p.53. "PILUR ΠΗΛΙΟΥΡΙ 532 ΑΧ"^[3]

   History

   In 1720, the villages of Himara, Palasa, Ilias, Vuno, Pilur and Qeparo refused to submit to the Pasha of Delvina.^[4]

   References