| In 1909, to meet the demands for teachers able to teach in the native tongue, a normal school was inaugurated in Elbasan. |
| There is difficult terrain between Tirana and Elbasan and, although only about 20 miles apart, they are connected via durres only. |
| It averages less than ten miles deep but widens to about thirty miles in the Elbasan area. |
| Our mother did not want to live in Macedonia, so we stayed in Elbasan. |
| Centers for inland mountain valley or upland basin communities are Berat, Elbasan, and Korce. |
| In the north, from the Drin River to the vicinity of Elbasan, it constitutes an area about twenty miles wide. |
