| Type: | mu |
| Official Name: | Zerqan |
| County: | Dibër |
| Municipality: | Bulqizë |
| Coordinates: | 41.5°N 41°W |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Unit: | 4111 |
| Website: | https://web.archive.org/web/20110430105023/http://www.komuna-zerqan.gov.al:80/ |
Zerqan (Albanian pronunciation: in Albanian pronounced as /zɛɾcan/) is a village and a former municipality in Dibër County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality Bulqizë.[1] The population at the 2011 census was 4,111.[2]
Zerqan (Zirklani) appears in the Ottoman defter of 1467 as a settlement in the vilayet of Dulgoberda. The village had a total of 11 households represented by the following household heads: Pop Dimitri, Gjureja son of Gjoni, Andrije brother of Pop Dimitri, Dimitri Pllasha, Kolë Sigori, Obertkoja son of Pop, Tanush Arbenasi, Kolë Osmaku, Andreja Kimëza, Martin Mimiza, and Gjergj Liu.[3]
In 1900, Vasil Kanchov gathered and compiled statistics on demographics in the area, finding a mainly Albanian area in and around Zerqan: the villages of Zerqan, Smollik, Sofraçan, and Sopot were all entirely Albanian inhabited, while Tërnovë was inhabited by Slavic Muslims.[4]