[2] The municipal unit consists of the villages Frashër, Zavalan, Ogren-Kostrec, Gostivisht, Miçan, Vërçisht, Kreshovë and Soropull.

Frashër is widely regarded as the 'Mecca' of Albania and is known for the disproportionate number of prominent intellectuals it has produced - especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

[6] The Frashër area in the Middle Ages was the source of several waves of migrations of Aromanians throughout the southern and central Balkans.

[10] Ottoman Albanian spahis and landowners from nineteenth century Frashër owned estate properties (chiflik) in parts of the Balkans and in particular the Thessalian plain, until its loss to Greece in 1881 leading to local economic decline and increasing reliance on agriculture.

[11] In 1914 the Tekke of Frashër, a 133 year-old Bektashi shrine and a center of Albanian Nationalism in the area, was destroyed by the Greek rebels of Georgios Christakis-Zografos,[12][13] but was reconstructed with the contribution of Albanian-Americans in 1923.