Shirgjan
Shirgjan is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Elbasan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ad Quintum and Elbasan steelworks.
Ad Quintum
Archaeological site
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ad Quintum was an ancient settlement and a Roman thermal complex in Illyricum, near Bradashesh, present-day Albania. Ad Quintum was a mutatio of the Via Egnatia, which connected western Illyria with eastern Thrace, from the two starting points of Dyrrhachium and Apollonia, to Byzantium. Ad Quintum is situated 4 km northwest of Shirgjan.
Elbasan steelworks
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Elbasan steelworks is situated 3½ km northwest of Shirgjan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bradashesh and Scampis.
Bradashesh
Village
Bradashesh is a village and a former municipality in Elbasan County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Elbasan. Bradashesh is situated 5 km northwest of Shirgjan.
Scampis
Suburb
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scampis is a suburb, which is situated 6 km northeast of Shirgjan.
Petresh
Village
Photo: HelmutKienzle, CC BY 4.0.
Petresh is a village, which is situated 6 km northwest of Shirgjan.
Shirgjan
- Type: Locality with 7,310 residents
- Description: village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, central Albania
- Categories: bashkia and Communes of Albania
- Location: Elbasan, Elbasan County, Southeastern Albania, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Shirgjan” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Komuna Shirgjan”
- Albanian: “Njësia administrative Shirgjan”
- Catalan: “Shirgjan”
- Cebuano: “Komuna e Shirgjanit”
- Dutch: “Shirgjan”
- French: “Shirgjan”
- Hungarian: “Shirgjan”
- Hungarian: “Shirgjani alközség”
- Hungarian: “Shirgjani”
- Italian: “Shirgjan”
- Malay: “Shirgjan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shirgjan”
- Polish: “Gmina Shirgjan”
- Portuguese: “Shirgjan”
- Spanish: “Shirgjan”
- Swedish: “Komuna e Shirgjanit”
- Turkish: “Shirgjan”
- Uzbek: “Shirgjan”
- Vietnamese: “Shirgjan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shirgjan”
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