Lekël

Lekël (Albanian definite form: Lekli) is a community in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania.^[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Tepelenë.^[2]

Lekël
Village
Lekël
Coordinates: 40°15′22″N 20°4′46″E
Country	Albania
County	Gjirokastër
Municipality	Tepelenë
Municipal unit	Qendër Tepelenë
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Lekël was one of the Albanian Christian villages in the possession of the House of Muçohysaj the ancestral house of Ali Pasha.^[3]

Warm-summer Mediterranean climate predominates in this area.^[4]

The Albanians of the village speak in the Tosk dialect of the Albanian language.

Notable people

• Anastas Byku, 19th-century Albanian publisher and journalist
• Gjergj Suli (1893–1948), Albanian Orthodox cleric and martyr
• Georgios Vagias, Greek army general
• Thanasis Vagias (1765–1834), general, counselor, and confidant of Ali Pasha
• Loukas Vagias, Greek physician and participant in the Greek War of Independence.
• Konstantinos Lagoumitzis (1781–1851), Greek, revolutionary during the Greek War of Independence, his family was originally from Lekël