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 municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former administrative units of
Gorë,
Libonik, Maliq,
Moglicë,
Pirg,
Pojan and
Vreshtas. The seat of the municipality is the town Maliq. The total population is 41,757 (2011 census),
in a total area of 656.89 km
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The population of the former municipality at the 2011 census was 4,290.
[ The municipal unit consists of the town Maliq and the villages Kolanec, Goce, Gjyras, Bickë, Fshat Maliq and Plovisht.
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History
The city of Malqi contains early Bronze Age archaeological sites, which offer evidence of cultural continuity of early Bronze Age peoples in the Balkans. The archaeological site of Maliq IIIa shows signs of pottery ware designs influenced by pottery styles in Bronze Age Greece. However, a stylistic break occurs in Maliq IIb site, where "cruder ceramic types, frequently including doubled handled vases and single handled cups, with no connection with earlier Eneolithic levels f archeological digs
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Economy
The city of Malqi flourished around a sugar beet factory built in 1951. The factory was built with help from Soviet foreign aid. When the factory started operating it had a capacity of 1,000 tons to 2,400 tons later on. Eventually the factory was closed in the 1990s leading to a significant unemployment in the city.[http://om.ciheam.org/om/pdf/c02-2/CI011004.pdf ]
Sports
The football
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team KF Maliqi is home to the city of Maliq. The team was founded in the late 1990s and its home ground in Jovan Asko Stadium, Maliq which has a capacity of 1,500 spectators. The owner of the team is the Municipality of Maliq and the President of the team is Gëzim Topçiu. The team is currently playing in the Albanian Second Division.
References
Neolithic Settlements in Albania
*Prendi, F. “La civilisation préhistorique de Maliq”, Studia Albanica 1, 1966 : 254–266.
*Mallory, J.P. “In Search of the Indo-Europeans”, Thames And Hudson, 1989 : 75.
External links
Maliq (Albania) map – Nona.net
Municipalities in Korçë County
Administrative units of Maliq
Towns in Albania
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