Peshkopi (Definite Albanian form: Peshkopia, Macedonian: Пешкопеја, Turkish: Debre-i Zir) is a city in Dibër District, Dibër County, northeastern Albania.

It is located 187 kilometres (116 mi) away from Tirana, the capital of Albania, and 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Macedonian border. It is situated at 41°40'N and 20°25'. It sits 651 metres (2,136 ft) above sea level. In the 2004 census, there were approximately 14,100 residents. It is the capital of both the county (Albanian: qark) and district (Albanian: rreth) of Dibër. It is the only county capital in Albania that does not share its name with its county.

Peshkopi lies east of the Black Drin river. The Drin valley is the lowest part of the district. Mineral ores such as chromium, sulphur, and marble have been discovered in the district. Peshkopi has a branch of Aleksandër Moisiu University.

The region now known as Dibër was inhabited in pre-Christian times by the Illyrian tribe known to the Romans as Penestae (Albanian: penestë).

The name of Peshkopi is derived from the Greek Episkopi or 'bishop's seat', which shows early signs of Christianity settling in the Balkans.^{[citation needed]} Bulgarian maps of the eleventh century show the town under the name Presolengrad. The region of Dibër was subsumed under the Orthodox archepiscopate of Ohrid in 1019, and one year later received the status of an episcopate with its center in the Bulke ward of Peshkopi, located in what is now the neighborhood of Dobrovë. The central church of the Dibër Episcopate was that of St. Stephen (Albanian: Kisha e Shqefnit). The seat of the Episcopate would later be relocated, but the town of Peshkopi retained its name. Peshkopi is referenced as early as the fifteenth century under the name Peskopia.

Bajram Curri (1862 – March 29, 1925) was an ethnic Albanian politician and activist within the Vilayet of Kosovo, Ottoman Empire. He is awarded the title Hero of Albania.

Curri was born in Yakova (modern-day Đakovica), in the Rumelia Province of the Ottoman Empire. Whilst the present-day regions of Albania and Serbia were under Ottoman control, Curri represented the interests of the Albanians. He successfully fought in 1912 against the Young Turks. During World War I, he organized a guerrilla unit as part of the Kachak movement trough the Committee for the National Defence of Kosovo which he was a member.

When Albania was reconstituted after the war, he held various governments posts as a Minister and as a commander in the army. As an opponent of the later King Ahmed Zogu, to whom the Kosovo issue was less important, he was pursued by the King's troops and encircled in the northern Albanian mountains. He shot himself on March 29, 1925, in order to escape capture. The place where he died, Dragobi, in Tropojë District, was renamed after him (Bajram Curri), to commemorate him as a freedom fighter.