Pilur

{{Infobox settlement AL |type = v |official_name = Pilur |other_name = |image_flag = |image_shield = |image_skyline = |image_caption = |image_location = |county = Vlorë |municipality = Himarë |municunit = Himarë |leader_name = |leader_party = |coordinates = {{coord|40|7|43|N|19|46|30|E|type:adm1st_region:AL_dim:100000|display=inline,title}} |elevation = |elevation_min = |elevation_max = |area_total = |population_as_of = |population_total = |postal_code = |area_code = |car_plates = |website = }} '''Pilur''' is a village on the Albanian Riviera in Vlorë County, Albania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=Pilur&country=|access-date=2010-06-20|title=Location of Pilur}}</ref> It is part of the Himarë municipality.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

== Demographics == The village of Pilur is inhabited exclusively by an Albanian-speaking Orthodox Albanian population.<ref name= Kallivretakis>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"</ref><ref name="Hammond124">{{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"</ref>

==History== In 1720, the villages of Himarë, Palasë, Iljas, Vuno, Pilur and Qeparo refused to submit to the Pasha of Delvinë.<ref>{{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}}</ref>

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Category:Populated places in Himarë Category:Villages in Vlorë County Category:Albanian Ionian Sea Coast Category:Labëria