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The Bektashi are a branch of Islam with their own traditions. Their world centre has been in Tirana since 1925, after they were expelled from Turkey. Every August thousands walk up Mount Tomorr to a shrine.

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The Bektashi are a branch of Islam with their own traditions. Their world centre has been in Tirana since 1925, after they were expelled from Turkey. Every August thousands walk up Mount Tomorr to a shrine.

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Tempulli i bektashinjve ne vlore — The Bektashi Order, Albania
Tempulli i bektashinjve ne vlore Eruci at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Kamber Ali Dede
Kamber Ali Dede Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain

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Tirana

The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.

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Mountain

Mount Tomorr

A 2,416 m massif above Berat, and the site of an annual Bektashi pilgrimage each August.

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Religion in Albania

Four historic communities — Sunni, Bektashi, Orthodox and Catholic — and a state that banned all of them from 1967 to…

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Religion in Albania, Explained

Four communities, centuries of coexistence, twenty-three years of total prohibition, and a census question nobody…

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  • Wikipedia — Bektashism — English Wikipedia · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Used to ground the deep-research section and as a discovery aid; not relied on alone for contested claims.
  • Wikidata — Wikidata item Q467692 · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year.
  • Wikimedia Commons — Photographs · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
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