Pepel, Dropull

Pepel
Πέπελη
Village
Pepel is located in Albania
Pepel
Pepel
Location within Albania
Coordinates: 39°52′17″N 20°19′46″E / 39.87139°N 20.32944°E / 39.87139; 20.32944
Country Albania
CountyGjirokastër
MunicipalityDropull
Elevation
500 m (1,600 ft)
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Websitewww.pepeli.gr

Pepel (Albanian definite form: Pepeli, Greek: Πέπελη; romanized: Pépeli) is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.

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

Name

The placename Pepel is from a term that refers to clearing and is derived from the Bulgarian word пепел, pepel meaning ash and a y sound at the end of the toponym which through Albanian condensed from l and y into l.

Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 392 inhabitants in 1895. The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 505 in 1992.

References

  1. ↑ "Location of Pepel".
  2. ↑ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Ylli, Xhelal (1997). Das slavische Lehngut im Albanischen. Teil 2: Ortsnamen [Slavic Loan Material in Albanian. Part 2: Placenames] (PDF) (in German). Verlag Otto Sagner. p. 150. ISBN 9783876907727. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2022.
  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
  6. ↑ 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] (PDF). In Veremis, Thanos; Kouloumpis, Thodoros; Nikolakopoulos, Ilias (eds.). Ο Ελληνισμός της Αλβανίας [Hellenism of Albania] (in Greek). Ekdoseis Sideris. p. 58. ISBN 9789600800548. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 November 2025.