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Melçan

Melçan
Village
Melçan is located in Albania
Melçan
Melçan
Coordinates: 40°38′51″N 20°43′23″E / 40.64750°N 20.72306°E / 40.64750; 20.72306
Country Albania
CountyKorçë
MunicipalityKorçë
Municipal unitQendër Bulgarec
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)

Melçan is a community in the Korçë County, Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Korçë.[2]

History

During the 1920s, when the Bektashi Order and its headquarters in Hacıbektaş, Turkey were banned, the tekke of Melçan served as the first de facto headquarters of the Albanian Bektashi community until the World Headquarters of the Bektashi was officially set up in Tirana in 1930.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Location of Melçan". Retrieved 2010-06-20.
  2. ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6372–6373. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ Elsie, Robert (2019). The Albanian Bektashi: history and culture of a Dervish order in the Balkans. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78831-569-2. OCLC 1108619669.


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