Buçimas

Coordinates: 40°53′30″N 20°40′50″E / 40.89167°N 20.68056°E / 40.89167; 20.68056
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Buçimas
Buçimas is located in Albania
Buçimas
Buçimas
Coordinates: 40°53′30″N 20°40′50″E / 40.89167°N 20.68056°E / 40.89167; 20.68056
Country Albania
CountyKorçë
MunicipalityPogradec
Population
 (2011[1])
 • Total15,687
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal Code
7304
Area Code(0)868

Buçimas is an administrative unit in the municipality of Pogradec, Korçë County, Albania.[2][3] The village of Buçimas is the seat of the eponymous unit and consist of the adjacent villages of Bahçallëk, Gështënjas, Gurras, Peshkëpi, Remenj, Tushemisht and Vërdovë.[3]

Ibrahim Starova, (born Ibrahim Ethem Sojliu; 22 March 1865 – 5 August 1945), better known as Ibrahim Temo, was an Ottoman-Albanian politician, revolutionary, intellectual, and a medical doctor by profession. Temo was the original founder of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP). His family were originally from here.

Buçimas Administrative Unit seen from Qafë Plloçë with the houses of Pogradec in the background

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave/ Population and Housing Census–Korçë 2011" (PDF) (in Albanian). Tirana: Instituti i Statistikës (INSTAT). p. 86. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Bashkia Pogradec". Albanian Association of Municipalities (AAM). Archived from the original on 10 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6372–6373. Retrieved 25 February 2022.