Pepel (, ; romanized: Pépeli) 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.
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.Μιχάλης Κοκολάκης, "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. 277 The village is inhabited by Greeks and the population was 505 in 1992.
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External links Different views of Pepel