Type: | mu |
Official Name: | Shëngjergj |
County: | Tirana |
Municipality: | Tirana |
Coordinates: | 41.3333°N 26°W |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Unit: | 2186 |
Postal Code: | 1043 |
Area Code: | (0)49 |
Shëngjergj (Albanian for Saint George) is a village and a former municipality in the Tirana County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Tirana.[1] The population at the 2011 census was 2,186.[2]
Shëngjergj appears in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement in the timar of the Muslim convert Yusuf, belonging to the wider region of Tamadhea in the vilayet of Çermeniça. The village had a total of 12 households which were represented by the following household heads: Ishri Somruni, Mihal Uraji (possibly, Vraji), Petër Mirali, Nikolla Goranzi, Petër Pirati, Nikolla Korriku, Mekshe Lleshi (possibly, Leshi), Andrije Uraji, Shar Bogdani, Gjon Bureshi, Ilia Qinami, and Petër Gurabardi.[3]