Pëllumbas
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Pëllumbas Pëelumbasi |
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Coordinates: 41 ° 15 ' N , 19 ° 57' E |
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| Qark : | Tirana | ||
| Municipality : | Tirana | ||
| Height : | 400 m above sea level A. | ||
Pëllumbas ( Albanian also Pëllumbasi ) is a village in the former municipality of Bërzhita , today part of the Bashkia Tirana in Albania . The population of the village was estimated at around 400 people (2011).
Pëllumbas is one of the "100 villages" in which the Albanian government wants to stimulate rural development with investments, especially in the tourist sector . The local administration is also promoting the tourist development of the village after foreign organizations opened the village's biggest attraction in 2009.
Surname
The name is associated with the dove , which is called pëllumb in Albanian . The village is said to have been full of pigeons that lived in the rocky gorges of the river Erzen .
geography
Pëllumbas is located south of Tirana on the slopes of the Kruja chain at around 400 m above sea level. A. below the Mal i Pashkasheshit ( 858 m above sea level ). An asphalt road leads from the valley via the village of Iba to Pëllumbas. A road leads further up the mountain to the village of Pashkashesh on its back.
The village is known for the Pëllumbas cave (Albanian Shpella e zezë ) in the gorge of the Erzen (Gryka e Skoranës) , which are often visited today. Cave bears lived in this cave, which is 350 meters above sea level, around 400,000 to 10,000 years ago . Remains of this bear species have only been discovered in five other caves in Europe. 300,000 to 30,000 ancient paleolithic human traces have also been found. Numerous bats still find refuge in the cave today . The cave is around 360 meters deep, up to 45 meters high and contains stalagmites and stalactites . A well-developed hiking trail leads from the village to the cave, hikers descend into the gorge, where they bathe in the river in summer.
Pëllumbas borders in the east on the village of Pashkashesh, in the north - beyond the Ore - on the villages of Kryezi and Hekal, in the south on Krraba and in the west on the village of Iba.
society
There was a mosque in the village before 1940, but no school. After the 1940s, the primary school opened and in 1970 the kindergarten was established.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Elliott Wiegman, Laura Merrill, Margaret Freed, Tyler Hickey: Community Based Tourism at Pellumbas Village, Albania . Worcester, MA 2013, p. 79 ( wpi.edu [PDF; accessed April 12, 2019]).
- ↑ Projekti "100 fshatrat" nga Lazarati tek Valbona dhe Boboshtica, harta e PLOTE. In: Balkanweb.com. January 19, 2018, accessed April 13, 2019 (Albanian).
- ↑ Inaugurohet qendra e re e fshatit Pëllumbas, Veliaj: Në dy vitet e ardhshme focus fshati. In: Panorama Online. August 31, 2017, Retrieved April 13, 2019 (Albanian).
- ^ A b Elliott Wiegman, Laura Merrill, Margaret Freed, Tyler Hickey: Community Based Tourism at Pellumbas Village, Albania . Worcester, MA 2013 ( wpi.edu [PDF; accessed April 12, 2019]).
- ↑ Military map 1: 50,000 "K-34-100-B Tirana". 2nd edition, Tirana 1981.
- ↑ Shpella e Zezë. In: Agjencia Kombëtare e Zonave të Mbrojtura. Retrieved April 12, 2019 (Albanian).