Maqellarë

Maqellarë (Macedonian: Макелари) is a former municipality in Dibër County, Northeastern Albania.

Understand
The Maqellarë area is part of a region known as Dolno Pole in Macedonian and Fusha e Shehërit in Albanian. This area has historically had an ethnic Macedonian minority, though it has declined significantly. Only two villages today have a sizable minority of Orthodox Macedonians, Herebel and Kërçisht i Epërm, and the Muslims of the area today are virtually entirely Albanian.

An important 13th-century liturgical manuscript in Cyrillic was written in Herebel. It is today housed in the Russian National Library. The manuscript is considered to be from the Ohrid Literary School.

Get in
The villages of this area are on or near highway SH6. Maqellarë is also a short distance to the North Macedonia border, connected with highway SH44 to Debar.

Go next

 * Debar is a city just on the other side of the border with North Macedonia