Gruemirë
Sign in to saveGruemirë is a former municipality in the Shkodër County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Malësi e Madhe. The population at the 2011 census was 8,890.
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- Settlement AL.type
- mu
- Settlement AL.official_name
- Gruemirë
- Settlement AL.county
- Shkodër
- Settlement AL.municipality
- Malësi e Madhe
- Settlement AL.area_unit
- 113.7
- Settlement AL.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement AL.population_unit
- 8890
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- MA
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- postal code
- 4302
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Gruemirë is a former municipality in the Shkodër County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Malësi e Madhe. The population at the 2011 census was 8,890.
== Name == It is named after the settlement of Gruemirë which in turn takes its name from the legend of "Good women" which traditionally is translated good-mirë: women-grua (grue from dialect) and had its home territory in Gruemira. Gruemira is first mentioned in the cadaster of Venetian Shkodra in 1416. Traditionally, in Albanological research it has been seen as compound of grua (woman) and mirë (good). Another theory based in the rendering of the toponym in the defter of Scutari in 1485 as Kuruemira proposes an etymology as a compound of krua (well) + mirë (good). The people of the fis and the village of Gruemirë are called Gruemiras.
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