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{{Infobox settlement AL
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|official_name      = Humelicë
|other_name         = {{lang|rup|Umelitsa}}, {{lang|rup|Umelitse}}
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|county             = Gjirokastër
|municipality       = [[Gjirokastër]]
|municunit          = [[Cepo]]
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|elevation          = 200
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'''Humelicë''' ({{langx|rup|Umelitsa}} or {{lang|rup|Umelitse}}) is a village in [[Gjirokastër County]], southern [[Albania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geonames.org/search.html?q=Humelicë&country=AL|title=Location of Humelicë}}</ref> At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of [[Gjirokastër]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |title=Law nr. 115/2014 |language=sq |pages=6371|access-date=25 February 2022 }}</ref> It is inhabited by an [[Eastern Orthodoxy|Orthodox Christian]] population of [[Aromanians]] with a minority of Orthodox Christian [[Albanians]].<ref name=Kallivretakis>{{cite web|last1=Kallivretakis|first1=Leonidas|title=Η Ελληνική Κοινότητα της Αλβανίας υπό το Πρίσμα της Ιστορικής Γεωγραφίας και Δημογραφίας [The Greek Community of Albania in Terms of Historical Geography and Demography]|url=http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/handle/10442/8696|publisher=Εκδόσεις Σιδέρης|accessdate=2 February 2015|page=56|language=Greek|date=1995}}</ref>
== Demographics ==
According to [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] statistics, the village had 97 inhabitants in 1895.<ref>Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "[http://helios-eie.ekt.gr/EIE/bitstream/10442/7682/1/N02.018.09.pdf Η τουρκική στατιστική της Ηπείρου στο Σαλναμέ του 1895]" στο Βασίλης Παναγιωτόπουλος, Λεωνίδας Καλλιβρετάκης, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης και Ευδοκία Ολυμπίτου (επιμ.), ''Πληθυσμοί και οικισμοί του ελληνικού χώρου. Ιστορικά μελετήματα'', Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών/Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Athens 2003, p. 278</ref> The village had 412 inhabitants in 1993, of which majority were Orthodox [[Aromanians]] and the rest were Christian [[Albanians]].<ref name=Kallivretakis /> The village today has a decreased permanent population of roughly 200 inhabitants, notably due to migration to [[Greece]] or other countries. Despite this, the population doubles in [[Easter]], [[Summer]] and [[Christmas]], as most people return to their village to celebrate or have holidays with their families.
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[[Category:Aromanian settlements in Albania]]