# Zejmen

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'''Zejmen''' is a village and a former municipality in the [Lezhë County](/source/Lezh%C3%AB_County), northwestern [Albania](/source/Albania). At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality [Lezhë](/source/Lezh%C3%AB).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |title=Law nr. 115/2014 |language=sq |pages=6373–6374|access-date=25 February 2022}}</ref> The population at the 2023 census was 4,042.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instat.gov.al/media/14321/cens-2023-lezha.pdf |title=Population and Housing Census, Lezhë 2023 |page=107 |access-date=9 November 2024 |publisher=[INSTAT](/source/Institute_of_Statistics_(Albania))}}</ref>

== Demographic history ==
Zejmen (''Zojmen'') is recorded in the [Ottoman](/source/Ottoman_Empire) ''[defter](/source/defter)'' of 1467 as a village in the [timar](/source/timar) of Abdullah in the [vilayet](/source/vilayet) of [Dimitri Gjonima](/source/Dhimit%C3%ABr_Jonima). The settlement had a total of five households represented by the following household heads: ''Gjergj Gjika'', ''Gjon Sujma'', ''Domenik Hajmili'', ''Progon Nizha'', and ''Dimitri Dromshi''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Caka |first1=Eduart |title=Defteri i hollësishëm për zonat e dibrës i vitit 1467 |date=2019 |publisher=Akademia e studimeve albanologjike instituti historisë |location=Tiranë |page=171}}</ref>     
 
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Category:Former municipalities in Lezhë County
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Category:Villages in Lezhë County

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