Lekël ( sq-definite, Lekli) is a community in the
Gjirokastër County
Gjirokastër County () is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The total population in 2023 was 60,013, in an area of 2884 km2. Its capital is the city Gjirokastër.
Administrative divisions
Until 2000, Gjirokastër County was subdivided into thre ...
, southern
Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...
. 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 on the left bank of the Vjosa River, about three kilometres downstream from its union with the Drino.
Until the abolition ...
.
Lekël was one of the
Albanian Christian villages in the possession of the House of Muçohysaj the ancestral house of
Ali Pasha.
Warm-summer Mediterranean climate predominates in this area.
The
Albanians
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of the village speak in the
Tosk
Tosk ( sq-definite, toskërishtja) is the southern group of dialects of the Albanian language, spoken by the ethnographic group known as Tosks. The line of demarcation between Tosk and Gheg (the northern variety) is the Shkumbin River. Tosk is ...
dialect of the
Albanian language
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.
Notable people
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Anastas Byku, 19th-century Albanian publisher and journalist
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Gjergj Suli
Gjergj Suli (1893–1948), also referred to as At Gjergj Suli was an Albanian Orthodox cleric and martyr.
Biography
Gjergj Suli was born in Lekël village, Vilayet of Yannina, Ottoman Empire today modern southern Albania . His surname sugges ...
(1893–1948), Albanian Orthodox cleric and martyr
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Georgios Vagias, Greek army general
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Thanasis Vagias
Thanasis Vagias (; ; 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, wrongly thought by Makriyannis to be a betraye ...
(1765–1834), general, counselor, and confidant of
Ali Pasha
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Loukas Vagias,
Greek
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physician and participant in the
Greek War of Independence
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.
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Konstantinos Lagoumitzis (1781–1851),
Greek
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, revolutionary during the
Greek War of Independence
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, his family was originally from Lekël
References
Populated places in Tepelenë
Villages in Gjirokastër County
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