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Menkulas
Menkulas
Village
	Menkulas
	Coordinates: 40°32′N 20°57′E / 40.533°N 20.950°E
Country	Albania
County	Korçë
Municipality	Devoll
Municipal unit	Miras
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Menkulas is a small village of about 1,000 inhabitants in the Korçë County, Albania. In the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Devoll.^[1] The inhabitants of Menkulas are all Albanian Muslims and some adhere to the Bektashi sect. The population of Menkulas speak Albanian in the Tosk dialect. ^[2]

The mainstay of the local economy is agriculture.

Notable people

Dritëro Agolli (1931–2017), an Albanian poet, writer and politician

References

^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6372–6373. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
^ De Rapper, Gilles (2008). "Religion in post-communist Albania: Muslims, Christians and the concept of 'culture' (Devoll, South Albania)" (PDF). Anthropological Notebooks. 14 (2): 37. "the Muslim village of Menkulas"

[1] "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). pp. 6372–6373. Retrieved 25 February 2022.

[DeRapper37-2] De Rapper, Gilles (2008). "Religion in post-communist Albania: Muslims, Christians and the concept of 'culture' (Devoll, South Albania)" (PDF). Anthropological Notebooks. 14 (2): 37. "the Muslim village of Menkulas"

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