Buz (Albania)
Buz ( Albanian also Buzi ) is a village in southern Albania that belongs to the Bashkia Memaliaj . The Komuna Buz, which was dissolved in 2015, had 737 inhabitants (2011 census).
geography
Buz is located in the northeast of the former Tepelena district . Neighboring villages are Badër , Arrëz e Vogël, Gllava and Selcka. The village also included the villages of Bardhaj, Selcka e Vogël , Golemaj, Kalemaj, Shalës , Komar, Xhafaj and Kurtjez.
The village is secluded in the mountains between Memaliaj and Berat at around 800 m above sea level. A. on the road from Berat to Këlcyra . The settlement extends with hamlets over an area of around five to eight kilometers. The majority of the population makes a living in agriculture .
history
During the Second World War, resistance fighters against the Italian and German occupiers were active in the region.
In 1958 the farmers were collectivized in an agricultural cooperative . In the mid-1980s, the population of the municipality was given as 2274 people.
religion
Islam dominates in Buz , which can be clearly recognized by the often Islamic names of the residents.
Personalities
- Tafil Buzi (died 1866), resistance fighter against the Ottomans
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Gjirokastër 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Official map 1: 50,000 of the military cartographic office of Albania, sheet K-34-125-C Ballabani , Tirana 1983
- ↑ a b c Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985.