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Communes (Albanian: komuna or komunat), officially known as administrative units (njësite administrative) or units of local administration, government, or governance (njësite të qeverisjes vendore) since 2015, are the 373 third-level administrative divisions of Albania which serve as its local government.
Borders of Urban Tirana's 11 Municipal Units. Below are the original 11 municipal units (Albanian: njesi bashkiake) of Tirana that were in effect until 2015.These were joined by 13 more divisions effective June 2015 following the 2015 Administrative-Territorial Division Reform of Albania totaling 24 administrative units for Tirana:
The Municipal Council of Tirana (Albanian: Këshilli Bashkiak i Tiranës) is the legislative body of Tirana, Albania. [1] As of 2019 it consists of 61 members who serve a 4-year term. [ 1 ] The members of the council are elected in local elections and the last elections were won by the Socialist Party.
In 2014, this was revised to reduce the number of urban municipalities to 61 and extended their jurisdiction over the surrounding countryside to create regional administrations, [3] while using the communes—renamed administrative units (njësite administrative)—as a third-level division for local government.
The third level of government is constituted by the 373 administrative units (njësia / njësitë administrative) or units of local administration (njësia / njësite të qeverisjes vendore). Most of these were former rural municipalities or communes (komuna / komunat), which functioned as second-level divisions of the country until 2015.
The present municipality was formed in the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities of Baldushk, Bërzhitë, Dajt, Farkë, Kashar, Krrabë, Ndroq, Petrelë, Pezë, Shëngjergj, Tirana, Vaqarr, Zall-Bastar and Zall-Herr, which became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the city of Tirana. [5]
Bërzhitë is a village and a former municipality in the Tirana County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a municipal unit of the municipality Tirana . [ 3 ] The population as of the 2023 census is 4,291.
Vaqarr (Albanian:) is a village and administrative unit in the municipality of Tirana, central Albania. [3] As of the 2011 census, the administrative unit of Vaqarr had an estimated population of 9,106 of whom 4,838 were men and 4,268 women. [4] The Lake of Vaqarr has become a popular recreation area in the municipality of Tirana. [5]