The 19th-century town of Tepelen in Albania is located on the banks of the Vjosa River in Gjirokastr County. After a 2015 local government reform a village became part of its municipality. Ismet Toto was originally from this village.
Progonat is a village in the former Kurvelesh municipality, Gjirokastr County. 
 At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Tepelen. 
Tepelen (definite Albanian form: "Tepelena" ) is a town and a municipality in Gjirokastr County, in the south of Albania. 
 The town is located on the left bank of the Vjosa River, about three kilometres downstream from its union with the Drino. 
Ismet Toto (Progonat, 1908 - Gjirokastr, 1937) was an Albanian bureaucrat, publicist, writer and revolutionary. 
