Driving in Albania 🇦🇱 | From Gramsh to Grabovë e Sipërme

Gramsh is a town and a municipality in Elbasan County, central Albania. The municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Gramsh, Kodovjat, Kukur, Kushovë, Lenie, Pishaj, Poroçan, Skënderbegas, Sult and Tunjë, that became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town Gramsh. The total population is 24,231 (2011 census), in a total area of 739.75 km2. The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 8,440. Grabovë e Sipërme is a village in Albania inhabited by Aromanians. The village is located in the former municipality of Lenie. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Gramsh. Grabova was a medieval town created in the 10th century. Aromanians have left Grabova on several occasions, although the village has never been completely deserted. The first wave of depopulation took place in the 17th century, when Grabova shared the fate of Moscopolis and during the inter-war period, starting with 1931, many of Grabovars emigrated to Elbasan and Lushnjë. In 1933, 15 families from the village emigrated to Romania; they initially settled in Southern Dobruja and then, in 1940, in the village of Nisipari, Constanța County, from where they moved to the larger nearby towns (Medgidia, Ovidiu, Constanta) Another important immigration began in 1950, when communist authorities used the craftsmen from Grabova to build the industrial units in Korçë, Pogradec, Gramsh, Elbasan, and Tirana. In the 18th century the Grabovë Church was built in the village. ------------- VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.mtravelvlog.com ------------- LET’S BE FRIENDS: INSTAGRAM:   / mtravelvlog   FACEBOOK:   / mtravelvlog   TikTok   / mtravelvlog   TWITTER   / mtravelvlog   PATREON:   / mtravelvlog   PINTEREST   / m_travel_vlog   ------------- Here is a link if you want to help and encourage me to keep doing what I am doing: https://www.paypal.me/mtravelvlog ------------- Can’t thank you enough for being here and checking out our channel! Please like and subscribe!