It was elevated to the status of a museum town, as it was the birthplace of the leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, Enver Hoxha, who had been born there in 1908.
Αναβαθμίστηκε σε μουσειακή πόλη, καθώς ήταν η γενέτειρα του Κομμουνιστή ηγέτη της Αλβανίας Ενβέρ Χότζα, που γεννήθηκε εκεί το 1908.