Lazarat

Lazarat
Municipal unit
Lazarat
Lazarat
Lazarat is located in Albania
Lazarat
Lazarat
Coordinates: 40°3′N 20°9′E / 40.050°N 20.150°E / 40.050; 20.150
Country Albania
Population
 (2011)
 • Municipal unit
2,801
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal Code
6004

Lazarat (Albanian definite form: Lazarati) is a village in Gjirokastër County, in southern Albania. It is located in the Dropull valley.[1] Formerly functioning as a municipality, as part of the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality of Gjirokastër.[2] The former municipality consisted of the villages Lazarat and Kordhocë.[3]

The population at the 2011 census was 2,801.[4]

In recent years, Lazarat had gained the reputation as the cannabis capital of the country due to its large scale growth of cannabis by the local population.[5] However, in June 2014, the Albanian government cracked down and destroyed the local production and transit of the drug.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Konstantinos4647 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6371. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ Greece – Albania Neighbourhood Programme Archived March 27, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ 2011 census results Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Besar Likmeta (17 August 2013). "Is Albania Europe's new marijuana capital?". Retrieved 25 June 2015.