Type: | mu |
Official Name: | Zejmen |
County: | Lezhë |
Municipality: | Lezhë |
Coordinates: | 41.7167°N 60°W |
Population As Of: | 2023 |
Population Unit: | 4042 |
Zejmen is a village and a former municipality in the Lezhë County, northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Lezhë.[1] The population at the 2023 census was 4,042.[2]
Zejmen (Zojmen) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a village in the timar of Abdullah in the vilayet of Dimitri Gjonima. 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.[3]