Mamurras
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Mamurras Mamurrasi |
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Coordinates: 41 ° 35 ' N , 19 ° 42' E |
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| Qark : | Lezha | ||
| Municipality : | Kurbin | ||
| Height : | 30 m above sea level A. | ||
| Residents : | 15,284 (2011 for the entire former municipality) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+355) 0561 | ||
| Postal code : | 4704 | ||
Mamurras ( Albanian also Mamurrasi ) is a small town in northern Albania with around 6000 inhabitants. The place is in the south of the municipality Kurbin , south of the district capital Laç , north of Kruja and around 35 kilometers north of the Albanian capital Tirana . Mamurras lies on the edge of the Albanian coastal plain. In the east, the Skanderbeg Mountains rise to almost 1000 meters. The coast of the Adriatic is around ten kilometers away.
The area between the coast and the mountains used to be very swampy and was only drained in the 20th century. At that time, extensive forests stretched around Mamurras, which were notorious among travelers for the gangs of robbers encamped in them. Today only legends remember these forests.
Until 2015, Mamurras formed a separate community ( bashkia ) together with seven surrounding villages . According to the local administration, the town and surrounding villages have around 23,500 inhabitants (2012), of which around three fifths lived in the villages. In the 2011 census, however, only 15,284 inhabitants were recorded.
For a long time, Mamurras was on the only road connection from central to northern Albania that ran through the coastal plain. In 2002 the new SH1 expressway was built in the coastal plain , which was expanded into a motorway from 2009. The new route in the west relieves the town of through traffic.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Lezhë 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
- ^ Heinz Gstrein : Albanien , Walter-Verlag, Olten 1989, ISBN 3-530-29602-3
- ↑ Njesia Administrative Mamurras. In: Këshilli i Qarkut Lezhë. Retrieved April 29, 2019 (Albanian).