Sopot ( sq-definite, Sopoti) is a city in eastern

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 ...

. It was part of the former municipality

Stravaj Stravaj is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, eastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Prrenjas. The population at the 2011 census was 2,427.

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

Prrenjas Prrenjas (also written ''Përrenjas'', sq-definite, Përrenjasi) is a town and a municipality in Elbasan County, eastern Albania. The municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Prrenjas, ...

Geography

The area has natural attractions for tourism, such as the Gostima Waterfall, karstic caves, woods, a rich flora and fauna, and local ethnoculture.Sopoti, magjia e turizmit (in Albanian)
/ref> Sopot rises up from above

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, where the highest point is Gaferr's Peak, .

History

According to a folkloric

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, during the

Ottoman invasion Ottoman is the Turkish spelling of the Arabic masculine given name Uthman ( ar, عُثْمان, ‘uthmān). It may refer to: Governments and dynasties * Ottoman Caliphate, an Islamic caliphate from 1517 to 1924 * Ottoman Empire, in existence fr ...

of this mountainous part of Albania, women with their children flew from the castle's wall so as not to surrender to the Ottomans. Following five hundred years of Ottoman occupation and islamisation, the population of Sopot now carries two names, one Moslem and one

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. The area's population has decreased lately due to immigration.

References

Populated places in Prrenjas {{Elbasan-geo-stub

Geography

History

See also

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