Tepelena
Sign in to saveTepelenë () 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.
Key facts
- Settlement (Albanian).type
- m
- Settlement (Albanian).name
- Tepelenë
- Settlement (Albanian).emblem
- Stema e Bashkisë Tepelenë.svg
- Settlement (Albanian).skyline
- Tepelena Castle and New Town.jpg
- Settlement (Albanian).county
- Gjirokastër
- Settlement (Albanian).mayor
- Gramos Sako
- Settlement (Albanian).party
- PS
- Settlement (Albanian).area munic
- 431.50
- Settlement (Albanian).population as of
- 2011
- Settlement (Albanian).population munic
- 8949
- Settlement (Albanian).population unit
- 4342
- Settlement (Albanian).postal code
- 6301
- Settlement (Albanian).area code
- (0)814
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Tepelenë () 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 of Districts in 2000, Tepelenë was the seat of the Tepelenë District. Its location is strategically important and there is a ruined citadel occupying a point 300 metres above the river. Ali Pasha of Yanina was born at the nearby village of Beçisht, and Tepelena along with Ioannina were Ali's headquarters. In 1847, the British writer Edward Lear visited the town and noted the devastated buildings.