Burrel
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Burrel Burreli |
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Coordinates: 41 ° 37 ' N , 20 ° 1' E |
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| Basic data | |||
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| Qark : | Dibra | ||
| Municipality : | Mat | ||
| Height : | 300 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents : | 10,862 (2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+355) 0217 | ||
| Postal code : | 8001 | ||
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| Culture and history | |||
| City foundation : | 15th century | ||
The small town of Burrel ( Albanian also Burreli ) is located in the mountainous region of central Albania about 36 kilometers northeast of Tirana . The city with 10,862 inhabitants (2011 census) is the capital of the municipality of Mat .
geography
Most of the Mat region consists of a large, wide depression surrounded by inaccessible mountains, which is why you have to make a detour to the north of around 90 kilometers on the road to Tirana. The city lies on a terrace that slopes northeast and southeast to the Mat River, which is around 150 meters lower. A steep road - part of the SH 6 that connects Milot with Peshkopia - leads from the village to a bridge directly below the city, over which the eastern and southern areas of the Mat can be reached.
To the west of Burrel, the mountains rise to over 1700 meters. A bad, unpaved road leads over the mountains through the Qafë Shtama National Park to Kruja .
Until 2015, Burrel was an independent municipality ( bashkia ) . Then the parishes in the northern part of the former Mat district were merged to form the Mat municipality .
history
Burrel was first mentioned in writing in the 15th century as a stopover on the caravan routes leading east from the Adriatic . As a market square, Burrel was the regional center, even if only 400 people lived here in 1937.
In 1943, Italian troops set fire to all the houses in the town after local insurgents had driven the Italians out of the town.
As the location of a prison in which Ahmet Zogu and the communist regime had criminals as well as political prisoners and clerics - including Pjetër Arbnori , Bashkim Shehu , Fatos Lubonja and Karl Serreqi - imprisoned, Burrel was notorious throughout Albania for a long time. The word burrel is often equated with hell (in a figurative sense). After the political upheaval, the building was converted into a museum, and later Sali Berisha wanted to restore it to its original use.
In 2008, Carla Del Ponte , previously Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the Former Yugoslavia , published suspicions that the KLA had removed organs from prisoners from Serbia during the war in Kosovo in a yellow house in a village south of Burrel .
economy
Burrel emerged as the center of mining in the region. The planned extension of the railway line from Milot to Rrëshen was never completed. The city suffers considerably from the fact that today almost all mines are closed.
Attractions
Due to the destruction in World War II and the rapid growth, hardly any old houses have survived. The central streets and squares are characterized by multi-storey prefabricated buildings.
A small history museum shows local finds from different centuries and folklore from the Mat region.
The prison can also be visited - a reopening as a museum is planned.
The Burgajet Castle , the ruins of Kulla of Zogolli family in which the future King Zog was born, is located about ten kilometers east of Burrel.
Sports
The local football club KS Burreli plays in the second-highest league in the 2014/15 season .
Web links
- Bashkia Burrel: Plani Strategjik i Zhvillimit 2004–2008 (PDF)
- Bashkia Burrel: Strategjia e Zhvillimit të Qëndrueshëm 2012–2030 (PDF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Dibër 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Serbia Mediates in EU-Russia Organ Trafficking Row. On: www.balkaninsight.com, February 13, 2013.