Zerqan

Zerqan
Municipal unit
Zerqan
Coordinates: 41°30′N 20°21′E
Country	Albania
County	Dibër
Municipality	Bulqizë
Population  (2011)
• Municipal unit	4,111
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20110430105023/http://www.komuna-zerqan.gov.al:80/

Zerqan (Albanian pronunciation: IPA: [zɛɾcan]) is a village and a former municipality in Dibër County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality Bulqizë.[1] The population at the 2011 census was 4,111.[2]

Historical demographics

Zerqan (Zirklani) appears in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement in the vilayet of Dulgoberda. The village had a total of 11 households represented by the following household heads: Pop Dimitri, Gjureja son of Gjoni, Andrije brother of Pop Dimitri, Dimitri Pllasha, Kolë Sigori, Obertkoja son of Pop, Tanush Arbenasi, Kolë Osmaku, Andreja Kimëza, Martin Mimiza, and Gjergj Liu.[3]

In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area, finding a mainly Albanian area in and around Zerqan: the villages of Zerqan, Smollik, Sofraçan, and Sopot were all entirely Albanian inhabited, while Tërnovë was inhabited by Slavic Muslims.[4]

References

1. "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6367. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
2. 2011 census results
3. Caka, Eduart (2019). Defteri i hollësishëm për zonat e dibrës i vitit 1467. Tiranë: Akademia e studimeve albanologjike instituti historisë. p. 96.
4. Vasil Kanchov (1901). Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics -- Debar kaza. Accessed 4 July 2017.