Pirg
Sign in to savePirg is a village and a former municipality in the Korçë County, southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Maliq. The population at the 2011 census was 7,652. The municipal unit consists of the villages Pirg, Gurishtë, Zvirinë, Leminot, Qershizë, Kakaç, Shqitas, Veliternë, Sovjan, Novoselë and Bubuq. The etymology of this village comes from greek, meaning “Tower” in English. This means this village must’ve had an important tower, to be named as it.
Key facts
- Settlement AL.type
- mu
- Settlement AL.official_name
- Pirg
- Settlement AL.image_skyline
- Leminot reservoir lake.jpg
- Settlement AL.image_caption
- Leminot reservoir lake in Pirg
- Settlement AL.county
- Korçë
- Settlement AL.municipality
- Maliq
- Settlement AL.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement AL.population_unit
- 7652
- Settlement AL.postal_code
- 7016
- Settlement AL.area_code
- (0)865
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Albania
- Located in
- Korçë County
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Licence plate code
- KO
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- postal code
- 7016
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pirg is a village and a former municipality in the Korçë County, southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Maliq. The population at the 2011 census was 7,652. The municipal unit consists of the villages Pirg, Gurishtë, Zvirinë, Leminot, Qershizë, Kakaç, Shqitas, Veliternë, Sovjan, Novoselë and Bubuq. The etymology of this village comes from greek, meaning “Tower” in English. This means this village must’ve had an important tower, to be named as it.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pirg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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