Dropull i Poshtëm
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Dropull i Poshtëm is a municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in the Gjirokastër District
Gjirokastër District
The District of Gjirokastër is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It has a population of 56,720 containing a large Greek minority, and an area of 1,137 km². It is in the south of the country, and its capital is Gjirokastër...

, Gjirokastër County
Gjirokastër County
Gjirokastër County is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It consists of the districts Gjirokastër, Përmet, and Tepelenë and its capital is Gjirokastër. Its population includes a substantial Greek minority. To the southeast, Gjirokastër shares a border with Greece...

, southern Albania
Albania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

, part of the Dropull
Dropull
Dropull is a predominantly Greek-inhabited region in Gjirokastër District, in southern Albania. The region stretches from south of the city of Gjirokastër to the Greek-Albanian border, along the Drinos river. The region's villages are part of the Greek "minority zone" recognized by the Albanian...

 region. The municipality is inhabited by ethnic Greeks.

Settlements

  • Derviçan
  • Dhuvjan
    Dhuvjan
    Dhuvjan is a settlement in the Dropull i Poshtëm municipality, Gjirokastër District, Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. It is within the larger Dropull region.- Religion :...

  • Frashtan
  • Glinë
    Glinë
    Glinë is a settlement in the Dropull i Poshtëm municipality, Gjirokastër District, Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. It is within the larger Dropull region....

  • Goranxi
  • Goricë
  • Grapsh
  • Haskovë
  • Lugar
  • Peshkëpi e Sipërme
  • Peshkëpi e Poshtme
  • Radë
    Råde
    Råde is a municipality in Østfold county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Karlshus. The parish of Raade was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....

  • Sofratikë
  • Terihat
  • Vanistër
  • Vrahogoranxi

Notable people

  • Vasilios Sahinis
    Vasilios Sahinis
    Vasilios Sachinis , was the leader of the Northern Epirote Liberation Front .Sachinis was born at the villages of Dhovjan in Dropull area and became a prosperous businessman in Gjirokastër...

    (1897–1943), leader of the Northern Epirote resistance (1942–1943).
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