Kiri

Kiri is a historical Albanian tribe (fis) and ethnographic region located on the eastern side of the upper Kir river in the wider region of Pulti, northern Albania. Etymology The Kiri derive their name from the River Kir which flows through the region of Pulti in northern Albania. The river itself is recorded for the first time in Livy's Ab urbe condita (written between 27 and 9 BCE) in the form Clausula. It is later recorded in the 5th century Tabula Peutingeriana as Cleusis. The name appears in later sources from the Middle Ages and into the modern era in the forms of Clyre, Chiri, and Kiri. Geography