Loos (mat)
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Klos Klosi |
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Coordinates: 41 ° 30 ' N , 20 ° 6' E |
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| Qark : | Dibra | ||
| Municipality : | Toilets | ||
| Height : | 280 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents : | 16,618 (2011) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+355) 287 | ||
| Postal code : | 8002 | ||
| Politics and administration (as of 2019 ) | |||
| Mayor : | Ilmi Hoxha ( PS ) | ||
 Toilets from the south (2011) |
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Klos ( Albanian also Klosi ) is a municipality and a place in Albania . It lies in the valley of the Mat in the area of the same name, which formerly formed the district of Mat . The place Klos is about 20 kilometers south of the regional center Burrel . The community has 16,618 inhabitants (as of 2011).
The place Klos is located at the southern end of the Mat depression directly on the right bank of the river at around 250 meters above the Adriatic Sea . In the south, where the Mat has formed deep gorges, and in the west, the mountains rise steeply. The furrowed hill country in the east is less steep. Only after a few kilometers do you climb steeply in Mal i Allamanit to 2100 meter high mountains, the Maja e Kreshtës ( 2100 m above sea level ) and the Mali i Micekut ( 2101 m above sea level ). In the south and east the mountains do not reach quite so great heights.
With the Përroi i Darsit from the west and the Përroi i Kukatinit from the east, two larger streams flow into the Mat near Klos. Although Klos is the center of the southern Mattal with schools, shops, administration and health care, the area is still strongly characterized by agriculture . In the Mal i Allamanit mountain range east of Klos there is a lot of chromium , which has been heavily mined in small, private tunnels since the late 2000s. Some mines were built there as early as the communist era . A chrome plant should have been built in Klos, which should primarily have processed the ores extracted in Bulqiza , up to 2000 tons per day. A conveyor tunnel would have delivered the ore from the mines to the south, on a new railway line of Hekurudha Shqiptare they should be transported. In the late 1980s, the extension of the railway from Rrëshen via Burrel to the location of this chrome plant south of Klos began. The line was never completed. The railway embankment and various bridges are still clearly visible between Burrel and Klos, along with the various industrial buildings and remains of the chrome works at the southern exit of Klos village and further down the valley.
Klos is on SH 6 , which connects Dibra with the centers of the country. Long stretches of the road have been renewed, but it is still narrow and winding. To the north it follows the valley of the Mat to its entry into the coastal plain at Milot . To the east, it leaves the Mattal at Klos and climbs towards Bulqiza to the Qafa e Buallit pass, which is around 550 meters higher. In the region around Klos the new Rruga e Arbërit is being built, the centerpiece of which is a direct connection through the mountains from Klos to Tirana. This two-lane expressway with various bridges and tunnels would shorten the 120-kilometer journey to Tirana by at least two thirds.
Until 2015, Klos was an independent municipality ( bashkia ) with 7,873 inhabitants (2011 census), the local authorities even recorded 10,967 people. In addition to the main town Klos Qendër (center) , the following villages belonged to this municipality: Bejn, Klos Katund, Shëngjun, Plan i Bardhë, Fullqet, Dars, Fshat, Bel, Unjata, Plesha, Cerruja, Patin and Bershin. Maps usually show two places with the name Klos in the immediate vicinity: On the one hand, the old Klos on the hill, which is called Klos-Katund or Klos-Fshat (both means Klos-Dorf ). Klos-Katund is still known today for some beautiful old houses, some of which are listed and are right on the main street. The largest and most beautiful includes the local museum Muzeu i Kulturës Popullore të krahinës se Matit .
Since 2015 the former neighboring communities Gurra (3369 inhabitants), Suç (2716 inhabitants) and Xibra (2660 inhabitants) belong to Klos. The municipal area now includes the entire southern part of the former district of Mat , mostly inaccessible mountain area.
Around a fifth of the residents of the old community lived in the main town of Klos . In 1979 only 600 inhabitants lived here, in 1987 a little more with 800. Until the Second World War, there was little more than a market square at the site of today's small town , which was called Pazari i urës (Bazaar of the Bridge) , Pazari i Matit (Mat Bazaar) or Klos i poshtëm (Sub-Klos) .
“There is no city in Matja. But there is an urgent need for a market. It is held every week in the middle of the landscape at the point that is best accessible from all sides. It is the Mati ford at Klos i poshtmë (Unter-Klos). The village lies on top of the surface of the basin fill. From there you descend about half an hour to the river, and in its narrow valley, on a small flat spot next to the ford, under large old trees, lies the market square. No house or even a shed indicates that there is a lively hustle and bustle in this quiet place on market days, where farmers from far and wide sell their products, eggs and cheese, garlic, onions, tomatoes, etc., to buy whatever they need to come together where the blood of many slaughtered sheep and goats runs in the sand. "
“Because the site does not allow closed village settlements. The markets are also not permanently inhabited places, but collections of stone huts open on one side that are only used on market days. So we saw her in the Bazar i Urës at the (blown) Matbrücke of the municipality of Klos and also in Lisa on the 'Serbenweg' "
The market square was on the caravan route that connected Tirana over the mountains with the southern part of the valley and the Dibra further to the east. Even today, various old stone bridges in and around the village bear witness to these important transport routes that were in use before the Second World War. It was not until 1971 that the district called Stragj became an urban settlement. Several barrows from Illyrian times point to earlier settlements . A first mention of the place as Kilos comes from the 15th century.
Web links
- Bashkia Klos: Plani Strategjik i Zhvillimit (PDF; 8.8 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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]).
- ^ Karl Schappelwein: Mining and energy industry . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (= Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 376-390 .
- ↑ Dhimitër Doka, Eqerem Yzeiri: Basic features of the 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. 26 .
- ↑ The unfinished route: Milot - Rrëshen - Burrel - Klos (part 2, 40 B.). In: turntable online. September 26, 2011, accessed September 29, 2011 .
- ↑ Rruga e Arbrit gati në vitin 2013. In: YllPress. August 16, 2010, accessed July 27, 2011 (Albanian).
- ↑ a b c Tabela permbledhese e te dhenave te popullsise se Qarkut Diber periudhen 1/1/2011. (PDF; 85 kB) (No longer available online.) In: Këshilli i Qarkut Dibër. Archived from the original on February 3, 2016 ; Retrieved July 25, 2011 (Albanian). 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.
- ↑ a b c d e Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985.
- ↑ Michael Schmidt-Neke and Örjan Söberg: Population structure . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (= Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 464-490 .
- ↑ a b c Friedrich Markgraf: In Albania's mountains . Published by Strecker and Schröder in Stuttgart, Friedenau 1929.
- ↑ a b Herbert Louis: Albania: a country study primarily on the basis of own trips . Published by J. Engelhorn's successors in Stuttgart, Berlin 1927.
