Peqin
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Peqin Peqini |
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Coordinates: 41 ° 3 ' N , 19 ° 45' E |
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| Basic data | |||
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| Qark : | Elbasan | ||
| Municipality : | Peqin | ||
| Height : | 50 m above sea level A. | ||
| Area : | 197.79 km² | ||
| Bashkia residents : | 26,136 (2011) | ||
| Population density (Bashkia): | 132 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Telephone code : | (+355) 512 | ||
| Postal code : | 3501 | ||
| Politics and administration (as of 2019 ) | |||
| Mayor : | Lorenz Tosku ( PS ) | ||
| Website : | |||
 View of the mosque and clock tower in the city center (2007) |
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Peqin ( Albanian also Peqini , rarely also Pekin / -i or Pegin / -i ) is a place in central Albania with 6353 inhabitants (status: 2011). Peqin is the capital of the municipality of the same name ( Bashkia ) .
Until 2015, Peqin was an independent municipality with an area of 17 square kilometers. Then it was merged with the other parishes in Peqin County in a territorial reform .
geography
The city is located in the Shkumbin valley northeast of the Myzeqe plain between Durrës and Elbasan on the main connecting route between these places, the Pan-European Transport Corridor VIII . The center of the village is on the northern Shkumbin bank. Peqin has a HSH train station . A new bypass road, designated as SH7 , leads south past the place. A motorway from Rrogozhina to North Macedonia and around Peqin is currently being planned.
The whole municipality has an area of 191 square kilometers and 26,136 inhabitants. The other villages are Gjoçaj , Karina , Pajova , Përparim and Sheza .
history
The Roman road Via Egnatia already led through Peqin. Numerous ancient remains have been found a few kilometers east of Peqin. It is believed that the ancient Clodiana was where the two branches of the Via Egnatia from Durrës and Apollonia joined. The first written mention of Peqin comes from 1431. At that time still known as Biklenet , it was a very small place. In the 16th century, the Ottomans built a fortification here to protect the coast and trade routes. As a suburb of the castle, Peqin developed rapidly. The Muslim population supported the garrisons in Peqin, Durrës and Bashtova and was therefore exempt from taxes in 1569/70. Evliya Çelebi visited the city in 1670 and described it in detail with the castle, the 400 palace-like houses, four mosques and various other madrasas , tekken and other places of worship. A mosque, a madrasah, a hammam , a tekke, several fountains and the water supply as well as a stone bridge are said to have been built by the vizier Abdurrahman Abdi Pascha , according to Çelebi . Peqin was the seat of a qadi .
In 1947 the first railway line in Albania , which leads from Durrës to Peqin, was opened.
Peqin hardly changed until the 1960s. After 1967, however, the place was heavily modernized and many mosques were destroyed. Parts of the large mosque and the associated clock tower from the 19th century on the central square and the fortress a little south of it are still preserved from Ottoman times . The five meter high walls date from the 18th century, but were higher earlier. With a length of 53 by 58 meters, they encompass what is now an almost empty, almost square interior. The fortress had two gates opposite, round towers still stand at three corners, a fourth was removed. There was a small mosque in the fortress.
Sports
The local football club KS Shkumbini Peqin had to relegate to the second division in 2012, categoria e parë .
Personalities
- Abdurrahman Abdi Pascha (1616–1686), Ottoman Agha
- Hekuran Isai (1933–2008), politician
Web links
- Official website of the Peqin Municipality (Albanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Elbasan 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( document as PDF [accessed on April 28, 2019]).
- ↑ a b James Pettifer: Albania & Kosovo - Blue Guide . A & C Black, London 2001, ISBN 0-7136-5016-8 .
- ↑ a b c d e Machiel Kiel: Ottoman architecture in Albania (1385-1912) . In: Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (Ed.): Islamic art series . tape 5 . Istanbul 1990, ISBN 92-9063-330-1 , pp. 202-212 .