Elbasan County
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Peqin

Peqin is a town and municipality in , central . The municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities , , , Peqin, Përparim and , that became municipal units.
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  • Type: Town with 8,940 residents
  • Description: town in Albania
  • Also known as: “Claudiana”, “Pecin”, “Pekin”, “Pekinj”, and “Peqinj”
  • Address: PEQIN, 3501
  • Postal code: 3501

Places of Interest

Highlights include Clock Mosque and Peqin Castle.

Mosque
Photo: Albinfo, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The , officially known as the Abdurrahman Pasha Mosque, and historically known as the Old Peqin Mosque, is a , located in Peqin, in , . Completed in 1666 CE, the mosque was designated as a Cultural Monument of Albania.

Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a castle in Peqin, . In the Roman times the city was known by the name of Claudiana, an Illyrian-inhabited territory. The foundations of the castle are thought to date from the Roman period, the time of the construction of the Via Egnatia.

Railway station
Photo: Sapfan, CC0.
serves the town of Peqin in , Albania. Peqin was the terminus of Albania's first passenger railway line. The 27-mile route was completed with assistance from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, but completion was delayed after the final shipment of 1,700 tons of rails did not arrive promptly from .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kodrasej and Hasdushk.

Village
is a village situated in the central plains of 's Western Lowlands region. It is part of . is situated 6 km northwest of Peqin.

Village
is a village situated in the central plains of 's Western Lowlands region. It is part of . At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality . is situated 8 km northwest of Peqin.

Town
Photo: Albinfo, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a town and a municipality in , centrally located in the Western Lowlands region of . It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities , , , and , that became municipal units. is situated 8 km northwest of Peqin.

Peqin

Latitude
41.04613° or 41° 2′ 46″ north
Longitude
19.74945° or 19° 44′ 58″ east
Population
8,940
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Open location code
8FHX2PWX+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5196037939
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3184497
Wiki­data ID
Q821023
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Peqin” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Peqin”
  • Albanian: “Peqini”
  • Arabic: “بجين”
  • Asturian: “Peqin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Peçini”
  • Bengali: “পেকিন”
  • Bulgarian: “Пекин”
  • Cebuano: “Peqin (kapital sa distrito sa Albanya)”
  • Cebuano: “Peqin”
  • Chinese: “佩今”
  • Chinese: “佩欽”
  • Chinese: “佩钦”
  • Czech: “Peqin”
  • Danish: “Peqin”
  • Dutch: “Peqin”
  • Dutch: “Peqini”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بجين”
  • Finnish: “Peqin”
  • French: “Peqin”
  • French: “Peqini”
  • Galician: “Peqin”
  • German: “Peqin”
  • German: “Peqini”
  • Greek: “Πεκίν”
  • Gujarati: “પેકિન”
  • Hebrew: “פקין (אלבניה)”
  • Hebrew: “פקין”
  • Hindi: “पेक़िन”
  • Hungarian: “Clodiana”
  • Hungarian: “Peqin”
  • Hungarian: “Peqini”
  • Ido: “Peqin”
  • Indonesian: “Peqin”
  • Italian: “Peqin”
  • Japanese: “ペチニ”
  • Japanese: “ペチン”
  • Kannada: “ಪೀಕಿನ್”
  • Korean: “페친”
  • Latvian: “Pekini”
  • Lithuanian: “Pekinis”
  • Lithuanian: “Peqin”
  • Macedonian: “Пеин”
  • Macedonian: “Пекин”
  • Macedonian: “Пеќин”
  • Macedonian: “Пекињ”
  • Malay: “Peqin”
  • Maltese: “Peqin”
  • Marathi: “पेकिन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Reqin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peqin”
  • Norwegian: “Peqin”
  • Persian: “پکین”
  • Polish: “Peqin”
  • Portuguese: “Peqin”
  • Portuguese: “Pequini”
  • Romanian: “Peqin”
  • Russian: “Пекин”
  • Russian: “Пекини”
  • Serbian: “Пекињ”
  • Sinhala: “පෙකුඉන්”
  • Slovak: “Peqin”
  • Spanish: “Peqin”
  • Spanish: “Peqini”
  • Swedish: “Peqin”
  • Tamil: “பெக்கின்”
  • Tatar: “Пекин”
  • Telugu: “పెకీన్”
  • Thai: “เพคิ้น”
  • Tumbuka: “Peqin”
  • Turkish: “Peklin”
  • Ukrainian: “Пекіні”
  • Urdu: “پچین”
  • Vietnamese: “Peqin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peqin”
  • Western Panjabi: “پچین”

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