title: Hekal
text: # Hekal
  
  Hekal is a village and a former municipality in the Fier County, southwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Mallakastër. The population at the 2011 census was 2,623.
  
  ## Notable people
  
  * Rrapo Hekali Albanian leader of the uprising of 1847
  * Dervish Hekali Albanian hero.
  