Pilur
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Pilur is a village on the Albanian Riviera in Vlorë County, Albania.{{Cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=Pilur&country=|access-date=2010-06-20|title=Location of Pilur}} It is part of the Himarë municipality.{{cite web |url=https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |title=Law nr. 115/2014 |language=sq |pages=6376|access-date=25 February 2022 }}
Demographics
The village of Pilur is inhabited exclusively by an Albanian-speaking Orthodox Albanian population.Kallivretakis, Leonidas (1995). "[http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/handle/10442/8696 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 Nikolakopoulos, Ilias, Kouloubis Theodoros A. & Thanos M. Veremis (eds). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [The Greeks of Albania]. University of Athens. p. 51. "ΑΧ Αλβανοί Ορθόδοξοι Χριστιανοί"; p.53. "PILUR ΠΗΛΙΟΥΡΙ 532 ΑΧ"{{cite book|last=Hammond|first=Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière|title=Epirus: the Geography, the Ancient Remains, the History and Topography of Epirus and Adjacent Areas|year=1967|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gI5QjgEACAAJ&q=Pilur%2C+a+village+of+105+houses|isbn= 9780198142539|pages=124}} "Pilur, a village of 105 houses, which is Albanian-speaking"
History
In 1720, the villages of Himara, Palasa, Ilias, Vuno, Pilur and Qeparo refused to submit to the Pasha of Delvina.{{cite book|title=Etnografia shqiptare|volume=15|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nusRAQAAIAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Akademia e Shkencave e RPSH, Instituti i Historisë, Sektori i Etnografisë|page=199}}
References
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Category:Populated places in Himara
Category:Villages in Vlorë County
Category:Albanian Ionian Sea Coast
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