Gramsh County

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Circle : Gramsh
Main place: Gramsh
Qark : Elbasan Qark
Surface: 695 km²
Residents: 24,231   as of 2011
Population
density: 		34.86 inhabitants / km²
ISO-3166-2 code: AL-GR
License plate : GR
Aerial view of Gramsh and the surrounding area

The district of Gramsh ( Albanian : Rrethi i Gramshit ) was one of the 36 administrative districts of Albania that were abolished in the summer of 2015 after an administrative reform. The district with an area of ​​695 square kilometers belonged to the Qark Elbasan . The area has 24,231 inhabitants (2011 census), according to the local authorities even around 40,000 inhabitants (2010), of which around a third live in the city of Gramsh , the eponymous capital.

The area now forms the Bashkia (municipality) Gramsh .

Gramsh is remote in the mountainous southeast of the country. The circle formed a section of the valley of the Devoll River , which crosses it from southeast to northwest. The Devoll is dammed into a large artificial lake at the valley exit. The dam is located a little north in the former Elbasan district . In the very south-west lies the Tomorr mountain , at 2,414  m above sea level. A. the mightiest mountain far and wide. In the east, too, the landscape rises above 2000 meters in various places, for example in the Valamara ( 2373  m above sea level ).

Devoll Valley south of Gramsh

Since the road through the Devoll Valley to Korça is not paved throughout, the Gramsh district is away from any through traffic. All access traffic reaches Gramsh via Elbasan . Numerous villages in the district are hardly accessible by roads. The whole district lives almost exclusively from agriculture . Almost three quarters of the population belong to the Bektashi religious community .

Communities

Former parishes
Surname Population (2011) Community type
Gramsh 000000000008440.00000000008,440 Bashkia
Kodovjat 000000000002355.00000000002,355 Komuna
Kukur 000000000002560.00000000002,560 Komuna
Kushova 000000000000659.0000000000659 Komuna
Lenias 000000000000779.0000000000779 Komuna
Pishaj 000000000004906.00000000004,906 Komuna
Porocan 000000000001269.00000000001,269 Komuna
Skënderbegas 000000000001239.00000000001,239 Komuna
Sult 000000000000631.0000000000631 Komuna
Tunja 000000000001393.00000000001,393 Komuna

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Elbasan 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( document as PDF [accessed on April 28, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Demografia e Gramshit. In: Bashkia Gramsh. Archived from the original on September 10, 2011 ; Retrieved August 26, 2011 (Albanian).