Peqin District
The circle Peqin (Albanian: Rrethi i Peqinit ) is the second- smallest of the 36 administrative districts of Albania. The area is only 191 km ². Located in central Albania circle has around 26 136 inhabitants ( 2011). He belongs to the Qark Elbasan and is named after the main town Peqin, which has around 7,500 inhabitants. The population of the district is almost exclusively Muslim.
The circle Peqin consists of a 15 km long section of the Shkumbin fertile valley. The river runs from Elbasan Coming in east-west direction. To the north the hills rise up against 750 m asl South of Shkumbins against the Myzeqe level, the landscape is flat.
Peqin is located on the main Albanian west-east axis. Both the route of the Albanian Railroad HSH Durres after Pogradec, and the Corridor 8 of the Pan-European transport corridors from the Adriatic to the Black Sea via Macedonia follow the Shkumbin Valley by Peqin. The Romans already traveled on this route. A staging post in the ancient Via Egnatia road axis was Clodiana, which is believed due to excavations and ancient ruins east of Peqin.