Maliq-Opar is a community in the

Korçë County Korçë County ( sq, Qarku Korçë, italic=unset), officially the County of Korçë ( sq, Qarku i Korçës, italic=unset), is a county in the Southern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the largest by area and the seventh most populous of ...

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares ...

. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality

Maliq Maliq ( sq-definite, Maliqi) formerly known as Malik, is a town and a municipality in Korçë County of eastern Albania. It is the smaller of two cities in the district, the other being Korçë, southeast of Maliq. The current enlarged municipalit ...

Culture

The masons of the area speak a unique sociolect known as

Purishte Purishte ( sq-definite, Purishtja) is a sociolect of the Albanian language spoken by the masons of the Opar region in Western Korçë District, Albania. Location The former commune of Lekas in Western Korçë District consists of mainly speakers ...

References

Populated places in Maliq Muzaka family Villages in Korçë County Albanian ethnographic regions {{Korçë-geo-stub