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Shëngjergj (Albanian for Saint George) is a village and a former municipality in Tirana County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality of Tirana. The population at the 2011 census was 2,186.

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Settlement AL.type
mu
Settlement AL.official_name
Shëngjergj
Settlement AL.county
Tirana
Settlement AL.municipality
Tirana
Settlement AL.population_as_of
2023
Settlement AL.area_unit
170.4
Settlement AL.population_unit
1377
Settlement AL.postal_code
1043
Settlement AL.area_code
(0)49

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Shëngjergj (Albanian for Saint George) is a village and a former municipality in Tirana County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality of Tirana. The population at the 2011 census was 2,186.

==Demographic history== Shëngjergj appears in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement in the timar of the Muslim convert Yusuf, belonging to the wider region of Tamadhea in the vilayet of Çermeniça. The village had a total of 12 households which were represented by the following household heads: Ishri Somruni, Mihal Uraji (possibly, Vraji), Petër Mirali, Nikolla Goranzi, Petër Pirati, Nikolla Korriku, Mekshe Lleshi (possibly, Leshi), Andrije Uraji, Shar Bogdani, Gjon Bureshi, Ilia Qinami, and Petër Gurabardi.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shëngjergj” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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