Clockwise from top:Panorama over the city, Ancient walls of the Castle, Ruins of the Basilica found in Bezistan, Building of the Skampa Theater, Olive trees along the scenic Krraba Pass
該市還因其良好的公共建築,先進的教育設施,公共花園和木材商店而聞名。戰爭造成了該市許多損失,隨後在共產主義時期的工業發展密集計劃使該城市的人口增加到約75,000人。這個過程的高潮是在Shkumbini山谷的城外建造巨大的黨派鋼鐵(阿爾巴尼亞語:Celiku i Partise)metallurgical建築群 在20世紀70年代由中國援助建成。它被 恩維爾·霍查著重稱為“阿爾巴尼亞人的第二次民族解放”。Shkumbin山谷環境影響複雜的成本很高。[17]
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^Kiel, Machiel, Ottoman architecture in Albania, 1385-1912, Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture: 39, 1990 [2012-01-09], ISBN 978-92-9063-330-3, ...states that Elbasan became a sandjak capital right after 1466 but the usually well informed Tursun Beg noted for 1466: "The sultan attached this fortress of Elbasan to the Sancak of Ohrid and returned to Edirne..."
^Shukarova, Aneta; Mitko B. Panov; Dragi Georgiev; Krste Bitovski; Academician Ivan Katardžiev; Vanche Stojchev; Novica Veljanovski; Todor Chepreganov, Todor Chepreganov , 编, History of the Macedonian People, Skopje: Institute of National History: 133, 2008 [2011-12-26], ISBN 9989-159-24-6, OCLC 276645834, (原始内容存档于2016-03-06), At the same time or nearly in 1467 the citizens from Skopje, ...were expa-triated to the Albanian city of Konjuh (Elbasan), which was constructedas a fortress to help the fighting against Skender-Bey. ... these Christians from Skopje as Elbasan’s citizens appeared other families from Ohrid, Kastoria and Serres that were compulsorily moved into this city..
^Koukoudis, Asterios. The Vlachs: Metropolis and Diaspora. Thessaloniki: Zitros Publications. 2003: 358 [2018-04-26]. ISBN 9789607760869. (原始内容存档于2017-03-26). "while at the end of the nineteenth century there were 3,000 Moslem families and 280 Orthodox Christian families. Of these, about 100 old Albanian-speaking Christian families lived in the old Christian quarter in the fortress, while 180 more prosperous Vlach families lived in the St Nicholas district on the outskirts of the town."