Melçan Explained

Type:	v
Official Name:	Melçan
County:	Korçë
Municipality:	Korçë
Municunit:	Qendër Bulgarec
Coordinates:	40.6475°N 20.7231°W

Melçan is a community in the Korçë County, Albania.^[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Korçë.^[2]

History

During the 1920s, when the Bektashi Order and its headquarters in Hacıbektaş, Turkey were banned, the tekke of Melçan served as the first de facto headquarters of the Albanian Bektashi community until the World Headquarters of the Bektashi was officially set up in Tirana in 1930.^[3]

See also

• Bajo Topulli

Notes and References

1. Web site: Location of Melçan. 2010-06-20.
2. Web site: Law nr. 115/2014 . sq . 6372–6373. 25 February 2022 .
3. Book: Elsie, Robert . Robert Elsie . The Albanian Bektashi: history and culture of a Dervish order in the Balkans . I.B. Tauris . London . 2019 . 978-1-78831-569-2 . 1108619669.