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Elbasan County

Elbasan

Elbasan is a city and municipality located in central Albania, situated on the north bank of the Shkumbin River. Due to its central geographic position within the country, it is sometimes colloquially referred to as "Kërthiza e Shqipërisë".
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  • Type: City with 78,700 residents
  • Description: city in Albania
  • Also known as: “City of Education”, “City of Flowers”, “Elbasan (Albania)”, “Elbasani”, “Elbassan”, “Scampa”, “Skampa”, and “Skampis(oldname)”
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Elbasan Arena and Elbasan Castle.

Stadium
Photo: Leeturtle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a multi-purpose stadium in Elbasan, . The stadium was completed in 1967 and has been the home ground of KF Elbasani ever since.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a 15th-century fortress in the city of Elbasan, .

Mosque
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The is a located in Elbasan, in , central . The mosque was built in 1599 CE by a Naziresha, the daughter of a Nazır. The mosque was designated as a Cultural Monument of Albania in 1948.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Scampis.

Suburb
Photo: Pasztilla, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Elbasan

Latitude
41.1127° or 41° 6′ 46″ north
Longitude
20.0821° or 20° 4′ 56″ east
Population
78,700
Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)
United Nations Location Code
AL NPP
Open location code
8GH2437J+3R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2142698589
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
783263
Wiki­data ID
Q114257
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Elbasan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Elbasan”
  • Afrikaans: “Elbasani”
  • Albanian: “Elbasan”
  • Albanian: “Elbasani”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti i arsimit”
  • Albanian: “Qyteti i luleve”
  • Albanian: “Skampis(emri i dikurshëm)”
  • Arabic: “إيلبصان”
  • Armenian: “Էլբասան”
  • Asturian: “Elbasan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Elbasan”
  • Basque: “Elbasan”
  • Belarusian: “Эльбасан”
  • Bengali: “এলবাসান”
  • Breton: “Elbasan”
  • Bulgarian: “Елбасан”
  • Burmese: “အယ်လ်ဘာဆန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Elbasan”
  • Cebuano: “Elbasan”
  • Chechen: “Эльбасан”
  • Chinese: “愛爾巴桑”
  • Chinese: “爱尔巴桑”
  • Chinese: “艾巴申”
  • Corsican: “Elbasan”
  • Croatian: “Elbasan”
  • Czech: “Elbasan (Albania)”
  • Czech: “Elbasan”
  • Danish: “Elbasan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Elbasan”
  • Dutch: “Elbasan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايلبصان”
  • Esperanto: “Elbasan”
  • Esperanto: “Elbasano”
  • Estonian: “Elbasan”
  • Finnish: “Elbasan”
  • French: “Elbasan”
  • French: “Elbasani”
  • Friulian: “Elbasan”
  • Galician: “Elbasan”
  • Gan Chinese: “愛爾巴桑”
  • Georgian: “ელბასანი”
  • German: “Elbasan (Albania)”
  • German: “Elbasan”
  • German: “Elbasani”
  • Gothic: “𐌴𐌻𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌰𐌽”
  • Greek: “Ελβασάν”
  • Greek: “Ελμπασάν”
  • Gujarati: “એલ્બાસન”
  • Hausa: “Elbasan”
  • Hebrew: “אלבסן”
  • Hindi: “एलबसान”
  • Hindi: “एलबासान”
  • Hindi: “एल्बसन”
  • Hungarian: “Elbasan”
  • Hungarian: “Elbasani”
  • Hungarian: “Ilbaszan”
  • Icelandic: “Elbasan”
  • Icelandic: “Elbasani”
  • Ido: “Elbasan”
  • Indonesian: “Elbasan”
  • Interlingua: “Elbasan”
  • Irish: “Elbasan”
  • Italian: “Elbasan”
  • Japanese: “エルバサン”
  • Javanese: “Elbasan”
  • Kabyle: “Elbasan”
  • Kannada: “ಎಲ್ಬಾಸನ್”
  • Kongo: “Elbasan”
  • Korean: “엘바산”
  • Kurdish: “Êlbasan”
  • Ladin: “Elbasan”
  • Latin: “Neocastrum (Albania)”
  • Latin: “Neocastrum”
  • Latvian: “Eļbasana”
  • Latvian: “Eļbasani”
  • Ligurian: “Elbasan”
  • Lithuanian: “Elbasanis”
  • Livvi: “El’basan”
  • Lombard: “Elbasan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Elbasan”
  • Macedonian: “Елбасан”
  • Macedonian: “Коњух”
  • Malagasy: “Elbasan”
  • Malay: “Elbasan”
  • Maltese: “Elbasan”
  • Maori: “Elbasan”
  • Marathi: “एल्बेसन”
  • Mingrelian: “ელბასანი”
  • Mongolian: “Элбасан”
  • Mongolian: “Эльбасан”
  • Neapolitan: “Elbasan”
  • Northern Frisian: “Elbasan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Elbasan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elbasan”
  • Norwegian: “Elbasan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Elbasan”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Elbasan”
  • Ossetian: “Эльбасан”
  • Pampanga: “Elbasan”
  • Persian: “الباسان”
  • Persian: “البسان”
  • Picard: “Elbasan”
  • Piemontese: “Elbasan”
  • Polish: “Elbasan”
  • Pontic: “Ελμπασάν”
  • Portuguese: “Elbasan”
  • Portuguese: “Elbasani”
  • Romanian: “Elbasan”
  • Romansh: “Elbasan”
  • Russian: “Скампа”
  • Russian: “Скампис”
  • Russian: “Эльбасан”
  • Russian: “Эльбасани”
  • Sardinian: “Elbasan”
  • Scots: “Elbasan”
  • Serbian: “Елбасан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Elbasan”
  • Sicilian: “Elbasan”
  • Silesian: “Elbasani”
  • Sinhala: “එල්බසන්, ඇල්බේනියාව”
  • Sinhala: “එල්බසන්”
  • Sinhala: “එල්බසාන්”
  • Slovak: “Elbasan”
  • Slovenian: “Elbasan”
  • Spanish: “Elbasan”
  • Swahili: “Elbasan”
  • Swedish: “Elbasan”
  • Swiss German: “Elbasan”
  • Tagalog: “Elbasan”
  • Talysh: “Elbasan”
  • Tamil: “எல்பாசன்”
  • Tatar: “Элбасан”
  • Telugu: “ఎల్బాసన్”
  • Thai: “เอลบาซาน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Elbasan”
  • Tumbuka: “Elbasan”
  • Turkish: “Elbasan”
  • Turkish: “İlbasan”
  • Ukrainian: “Ельбасан”
  • Urdu: “الباسان”
  • Venetian: “Elbasan”
  • Veps: “El’basan”
  • Vietnamese: “Elbasan”
  • Vlaams: “Elbasan”
  • Volapük: “Elbasani”
  • Walloon: “Elbasan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Elbasan”
  • Welsh: “Elbasan”
  • Western Armenian: “Էլպասան”
  • Western Panjabi: “الباسان”
  • Wu Chinese: “爱尔巴桑”
  • Yiddish: “עלבאסאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “愛爾巴桑”
  • “Elbasan”
  • “အယ်လ်ဘာဆန်မြို့”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Elbasan”. Photo: Albinfo, CC BY 4.0.