Municipality Tropojë
Also known as Bashkia Tropojë
Tropojë (; ) is a municipality in Kukës County, northeastern Albania, within the historical ethnographic region of the Gjakova Highlands. The municipality consists of the administrative units of Bajram Curri, Bujan, Bytyç, Fierzë, Lekbibaj, Llugaj, Margegaj and Tropojë, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town Bajram Curri. As of the Institute of Statistics 2023 census, there were 2,560 people residing in the municipal unit Tropojë and 14,189 in the municipality.
Key facts
- Albanian settlement.type
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- Albanian settlement.name
- Tropojë
- Albanian settlement.flag
- Flag of Tropojë.gif
- Albanian settlement.emblem
- 70px
- Albanian settlement.county
- Kukës
- Albanian settlement.mayor
- Rexhë Byberi
- Albanian settlement.party
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- Albanian settlement.area munic
- 1043
- Albanian settlement.population as of
- 2023
- Albanian settlement.population munic
- 14189
- Albanian settlement.population unit
- 2560
- Albanian settlement.postal code
- 8702-8703
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Tropojë (; ) is a municipality in Kukës County, northeastern Albania, within the historical ethnographic region of the Gjakova Highlands. The municipality consists of the administrative units of Bajram Curri, Bujan, Bytyç, Fierzë, Lekbibaj, Llugaj, Margegaj and Tropojë, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town Bajram Curri. As of the Institute of Statistics 2023 census, there were 2,560 people residing in the municipal unit Tropojë and 14,189 in the municipality.
== Etymology == Tropojë's old name was Trebopolje and is recorded in Serbian medieval charters and Ottoman registers. The word itself comes from the old Slavic trebiti, ‘to clean’, and polje, ‘field’, i.e. ‘clean field’.
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