Lekël ( sq-definite, Lekli) is a community in the

Gjirokastër County Gjirokastër County ( sq, Qarku i Gjirokastrës) is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The total population in 2021 was 58,031, in an area of 2884 km². Its capital is the city Gjirokastër. Administrative divisions Until 2000, Gjirokastër ...

, southern

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. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality

Tepelenë Tepelenë ( sq-definite, Tepelena) is a city and a municipality in Gjirokastër County, in the south of Albania. The town is located on the left bank of the Vjosa River, about three kilometres downstream from its union with the Drino. Until th ...

. Lekël was one of the Albanian Christian villages in the possession of the House of Moutzohoussates ( sq, Muçohysaj), the ancestral house of Ali Pasha. Warm-summer Mediterranean climate predominates in this area.

Notable people

* Anastas Byku, publisher of the bilingual Albanian-Greek ''Pellazgos'' magazine in 1860–1861 in

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* Gjergj Suli (1893–1948), Albanian Orthodox cleric and martyr * Georgios Vagias, Greek army general *

Thanasis Vagias Thanasis Vagias ( el, Θανάσης Βάγιας; sq, Thanas Vaja; 1765–1834) was a Greek counselor and confidant of Ali Pasha, the Muslim Albanian ruler of Ottoman Epirus.: "VAYIAS, Thanasis, 1765-1834, Epirot Greek, a confidant of Ali Pasha ...

(1765–1834), general, counselor, and confidant of Ali Pasha

References

Populated places in Tepelenë Villages in Gjirokastër County {{Gjirokastër-geo-stub