Manatia

The Manatia (also Manatija) are a historical Albanian tribe (fis) and tribal region in the district of Lezha of northern Albania.

It is one of the four traditional bajraks of the Highlands of Lezha (Malësia e Lezhës), alongside the Kryezezi, Vela and Bulgëri.

It is bordered by the Vela, Kryezezi and Bulgëri tribes to the east, the Mat river to the south, and the Zadrima-Lezha lowlands to the west and north.

[1] The village of Kapruell or Prull (Kaprul) is recorded in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a hass-ı mir-liva property in the vilayet of Dimitri Gjonima.

On the left bank of the Manatia creek above Grykë-Manati, there was a Church of Saint Michael that dated to the early 20th century.