Pepel, Albania

Pepel (Greek: Πέπελη; romanized: Pépeli) is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.[2] It is inhabited solely by Greeks.[3]

Pepel Pepeli
Settlement
Pepel
Coordinates: 39°52′17″N 20°19′46″E
Country	Albania
County	Gjirokastër
Municipality	Dropull
Elevation	500 m (1,600 ft)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	www.pepeli.gr

Holy Trinity Monastery Church is located within the village, a Religious Cultural Monument of Albania.[4]

Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 392 inhabitants in 1895.[5] The village had 505 inhabitants in 1993, all ethnically Greeks.[3] The village today has a permanent population of roughly 100-200 inhabitants, notably due to migration to Greece or other countries. Despite this, the population doubles in Easter, Summer and Christmas, as most people return to their village to celebrate or have holidays with their families.

References

1. "Location of Pepel".
2. "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
3. Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "Η Ελληνική Κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το Πρίσμα της Ιστορικής Γεωγραφίας και Δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in Terms of Historical Geography and Demography]" (in Greek). Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης. p. 58. Retrieved 2 February 2015.
4. "Religious buildings with the "Culture Monument" status". Republic of Albania National Committee for Cult. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
5. Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895" στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα, Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 277

External links

• Different views of Pepel