Bradashesh

Bradashesh
Coordinates: 41 ° 6 '  N , 20 ° 1'  E
Basic data
Qark :	Elbasan
Municipality :	Elbasan
Height :	130  m above sea level A.
Area :	55.2 km²
Residents :	10,700 (2011)
Population density  :	194 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	3009

Bradashesh ( Albanian  also  Bradasheshi ) is a village in central Albania west of the city of Elbasan in the municipality of the same name ( Bashkia ) . Until the summer of 2015, the place was the center of the homonymous municipality ( komuna ), which had 10,700 inhabitants (2011) and comprised 16 other villages: Balëz Lart , Balëz Poshtë , Kusarth , Kozan , Karakullak , Letan , Rrila , Shtëmaj , Ulen , Katund i ri , Fikas , Patresh , Shënmehill , Shijon , Reçan and Gurabardh . As Elbasan's neighboring municipality to the west, it was the second largest in the dissolved Elbasan district .

Bradashesh is just north of the party's large steel industrial complex , which was built during the Stalinist rule of the country under Enver Hoxha . The place is located on the northern edge of the wide valley of the Shkumbin River. It is a little more than four kilometers to the city center of Elbasan. The large industrial area lies between the town and the river. The former largest metallurgical plant in the country with a maximum output of 600,000 tons of steel per year employed around 12,000 workers until its decline in 1990 and heavily polluted the valley's environment. Many villages in the municipality are scattered across the hill country north of the village.

View from the pass road over the village to Elbasan

Various transport axes come together in Bradashesh: the road from Tirana over the Krraba Pass and Elbawsan to Korça ( SH3 ) and the important west-east connection from Durrës  via Rrogozhina to Elbasan ( SH7 ) and on to the North Macedonian  border, which is also part of the International Pan-European Transport Corridor VIII is. This route along the course of the Shkumbin is also followed by the longest railway line in Albania from Durrës to Pogradec , which passes Bradashesh on the southern edge. The Via Egnatia was the ancient forerunner of this west-east axis . Remains of the Mutatio Ad Quintum horse changing station in Bradashesh , a larger facility with thermal baths, probably from the second half of the 2nd century, bear witness to this time .

Web links

Commons : Bradashesh  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description of place and municipality on the website of Qark Elbasan (Albanian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 November 3, 2013]). Document as PDF ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Chris Hall: Southeast Europe Business Guide. Archived from the original on December 13, 2011 ; accessed on August 19, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Guntram Koch: DuMont Art Travel Guide Albania . DuMont, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7701-2079-5 .