Karbunarë
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Karbunarë (Template:Lang-sq-definite) is a former municipality in the Fier County, western Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Lushnjë.[1] The population at the 2023 census was 2,692.[2]
The municipal unit has nine villages under its jurisdiction:
- Balaj
- Biçakaj
- Karbunarë e Sipërme
- Kasharaj
- Kashtbardhë
- Murriz
- Skilaj
- Stan-Karbunarë
- Zgjanë
Although Karbunara is located in the Myzeqe region where many of Albanian Orthodox backgrounds live, it is a center of the heterodox Islamic Halveti Order, which is often mistaken for (but not the same as) the Bektashi Order. The town of Karbunara contains both a Halveti tekke and a Halveti tyrbe. In addition to the numerous residents of Halveti background, there are also some of Orthodox backgrounds as well as non-Halveti Muslim backgrounds, and in modern days there are also many irreligious individuals.