The current enlarged municipality was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former administrative units of Gorë, Libonik, Maliq, Moglicë, Pirg, Pojan and Vreshtas.

[4] The name of the town derives from a patronymic, which is either the proper noun Mal ("mountain" in Albanian), suffixed with the diminutive -iq or a variation of the definite form of the Muslim name Melik (Meliki).

However, a stylistic break occurs in Maliq IIb site, where "cruder ceramic types, frequently including doubled handled vases and single handled cups, with no connection with earlier Eneolithic levels [of archeological digs]".

[7] The story of the transformation of the swampland into a sugar factory site is told and analyzed in the book Sugarland.

The team was founded in the late 1990s and its home ground in Jovan Asko Stadium, Maliq which has a capacity of 1,500 spectators.