Belsh

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Belsh
Belshi
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Belsh (Albania)
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Coordinates: 40 ° 59 '  N , 19 ° 53'  E

Basic data
Qark : Elbasan
Municipality : Belsh
Height : 155  m above sea level A.
Residents : 8781 (2011)
Telephone code : (+355) 582
Postal code : 3008
Politics and administration (as of 2019 )
Mayor : Arif Tafani ( PS )
Website :
View across the lake to the city (2014)

View across the lake to the city (2014)

Belsh ( Albanian  also  Belshi , rarely also Belësh or Belëshi ) is a small town in central Albania with 8,781 inhabitants (as of 2011). Belsh is located about 25 kilometers southwest of the city of Elbasan and about the same distance east of Lushnja in the hill country called Dumreja .

geography

Renovated city center and lakeshore with town hall in spring 2019

The Dumreja - karst landscape with the Evaporit Diapirdom from Dumreja - lies between the Shkumbin rivers in the north, the Devoll in the east, the Seman  in the south and the Myzeqe plain in the west. The area is characterized by up to 300 meters, in the far north even up to 450 meters rising hills, polja and karst hollow forms . Around 80 small karst lakes ( Liqenet te Belshit / Dumreja lakes ) were formed in these up to 15 meter deep depressions . One of these is the Liqeni i Belshit , along whose western and northern banks the city extends.

history

The region of Belsh was settled in ancient times. On the other side of the lake near Gradishta , the remains of an Illyrian fortification and settlement were found on a hill . Later a Greek colony , the place prospered in Roman times as a trading center not too far from the Via Egnatia  . A little further south at Serafani was a temple  dedicated to Aphrodite . Many terracotta items were found in the adjacent lake and were sunk there in honor of the goddess. The finds from a princely grave are  exhibited in Tirana today . In the 6th century, the fortified ancient city was destroyed by invading Slavs .

Infrastructure and economy

There is a middle school and a hospital in Belsh. The area around Belsh is heavily used for agriculture. It is believed that there is also gas in the Dumreja .

administration

Location of Bashkia Belsh within Albania

In the summer of 2015, Belsh was merged with the other parishes of western Dumreja. The new municipality has 19,503 inhabitants (as of 2011). The Belsh community was the third largest in the dissolved Elbasan County . Belsh now also includes the area of ​​the former municipalities of Fierza (2065 inhabitants), Grekan (3138 inhabitants), Kajan (3925 inhabitants) and Rrasa (1594 inhabitants). In addition to the center (Qendër), the municipality of Belsh comprised the following twelve villages: Çepa , Dushk , Belsh-Fshat , Shkoza , Qafë Shkalla , Seferan , Trojas , Shkendi , Gradishte , Marinez , Stith and Stanaj .

politics

Arif Tafani has been the mayor of the Bashkia of Belsh since 2015 . The Bashkia Council has 21 members.

literature

  • Neritan Ceka : The princely tomb of Belsh . In: Arne Eggebrecht (Ed.): Albania - Treasures from the land of the Skipetaren . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0978-3 , p. 244-259 .

Web links

Commons : Belsh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Elbasan 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( document as PDF [accessed on April 28, 2019]).
  2. ^ Anne Jardin, Luan Nikolla, François Roure: Subsalt Imagery of the Dumre Area, Ionian Basin, Albania. (PDF; 716 kB) 2009, accessed on December 10, 2010 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Dhimitër Doka, Eqerem Yzeiri: Spatial Structure of Albania . In: Peter Jordan, Karl Kaser, Walter Lukan, Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Holm Sundhaussen (eds.): Österreichische Osthefte . Volume 45, issue 1/2. Peter Lang, 2003, ISSN  0029-9375 , p. 15 .
  4. ↑ James Pettifer: Albania & Kosovo - Blue Guide . A & C Black, London 2001, ISBN 0-7136-5016-8 .
  5. ↑ a b Bashkia Belsh. In: Këshilli i Qarkut Elbasan. Retrieved December 10, 2010 (Albanian).
  6. ↑ Guntram Koch: DuMont Art Travel Guide Albania . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2079-5 .
  7. ↑ Neritan Ceka : The princely tomb of Belsh . In: Arne Eggebrecht (Ed.): Albania - Treasures from the land of the Skipetaren . Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0978-3 , p. 244 f .
  8. ↑ Dumrea. In: EurekaMag. Retrieved December 10, 2010 .
  9. ↑ Përbërja e këshillit - Bashkia Belsh. Bashkiabelsh.al, accessed September 30, 2017 (Albanian).