Zerqan (Albanian pronunciation: ) is a village and a former municipality in the

Dibër County Dibër County (; sq, Qarku i Dibrës) is one of the 12 counties of the Republic of Albania, spanning a surface area of with the capital in Peshkopi. The county borders on the counties of Durrës, Elbasan, Kukës, Lezhë, Tirana and the ...

, 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 ...

. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality

Bulqizë Bulqizë (; sq-definite, Bulqiza) is a municipality in Dibër County, northeastern Albania. The municipality consists of the administrative units of Fushë-Bulqizë, Gjoricë, Martanesh, Ostren, Shupenzë, Trebisht, Zerqan with Bulqizë cons ...

. The population at the 2011 census was 4,111.2011 census results
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Historical demographics

Zerqan (''Zirklani'') appears in the Ottoman '' defter'' of 1467 as a settlement in the

vilayet A vilayet ( ota, , "province"), also known by various other names, was a first-order administrative division of the later Ottoman Empire. It was introduced in the Vilayet Law of 21 January 1867, part of the Tanzimat reform movement initiated ...

of Dulgoberda. The village had a total 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''. In 1900,

Vasil Kanchov Vasil Kanchov ( bg, Васил Кънчов, Vasil Kanchov) (26 July 1862 – 6 February 1902) was a Bulgarian geographer, ethnographer and politician. Biography Vasil Kanchov was born in Vratsa. Upon graduating from High school in Lom ...

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.

(1901)
Macedonia: Ethnography and Statistics -- Debar kaza
Accessed 4 July 2017.

References

Former municipalities in Dibër County Administrative units of Bulqizë Villages in Dibër County {{Dibër-geo-stub