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Zavalinë

municipal unit in Elbasan, Albania

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2619010 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zavalinë is a village and a former municipality in the Elbasan County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Elbasan. The population at the 2011 census was 1,622. The municipal unit consists of the villages Zavalinë, Seltë, Kamican, Jeronisht, Nezhan and Burrishtë.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Zavalinë” is municipal unit in Elbasan, Albania. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zavalinë, municipal and unit, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Zavalinë, municipal and unit is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “municipal unit in Elbasan, Albania” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2619010. Authority coordinates are 40.980, 20.281. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zavalinë” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.