Pepel, Dropull


Pepel is a village in Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Dropull.
Holy Trinity Monastery Church is located within the village, a Religious Cultural Monument of Albania.
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Name

The placename Pepel is from a term that refers to clearing and is derived from the Bulgarian word пепел, pepel meaning ash and a y sound at the end of the toponym which through Albanian condensed from l and y into l.

Demographics

According to Ottoman statistics, the village had 392 inhabitants in 1895. The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 505 in 1992.