Rrëshen

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Rrëshen
Rrësheni
Rrëshen (Albania)
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Coordinates: 41 ° 46 '  N , 19 ° 53'  E

Basic data
Qark : Lezha
Municipality : Mirdita
Height : 100  m above sea level A.
Area : 126.6 km²
Residents : 8803 (2011)
Population density  : 70 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code : (+355) 0216
Postal code : 4601-4602
Rrëshen seen from the motorway

Rrëshen seen from the motorway

Rrëshen ( Albanian  also  Rrësheni ) is a small town in northern Albania in the municipality of Mirdita . It is the center of the Mirdita . The city probably has around 4,000 inhabitants.

geography

Rrëshen is around 50 kilometers north of Tirana and around 25 kilometers from the sea and the city of Lezha . In the hilly area of ​​the Mirdita, it is not far from the point where the Fan i Vogël ("Little Fan"), the Fan i Madh ("Big Fan") and the Zmeja join to form the Fan River . The city stretches up a slope from the Zmeja river bed. The main road that climbs up the mountain ends in a central square.

Economy and Infrastructure

As the administrative center of the Mirdita, Rrëshen has authorities, secondary schools, a hospital, a cultural center from the communist era, hotels and restaurants. The cathedral , consecrated in 2002, is the seat of the diocese of Rrëshen .

main square

The important connection road from Durrës or Tirana via Milot and Kukës to Kosovo passes the city. In the summer of 2009, the new Autobahn 1 with the Kalimash tunnel was opened to traffic that passes the city on the edge. The remote mountain region has good road connections to the economic centers of Albania and Kosovo.

The Milot – Klos line of the Albanian Railway was opened in 1989 to Rrëshen. Passenger traffic was only available for a short time and since 1997 no more trains run to Rrëshen. Most of the new motorway was built on its route.

history

Rrëshen is a young town that is only shown as a small village on maps from the 1920s. Until the Second World War there was no city in the Mirdita. The center of the region was Orosh . Here the heads of the family of the Mirdites met for deliberations, a kind of rural community or thing . The Kapedan ( captain ), the leader of the Mirdites, lived in Orosh . There was also an abbey from which today's diocese of Rrëshen emerged. The communists fought against the clan structure of the northern Albanians, ousted the Kapedan and closed the churches. They built Rrëshen, which was not so remote, into the new center of the region. The whole region was industrialized. West of Rrëshen , a mine and a copper factory were established in Rubik , which is now the second largest town in the Mirdita; the mining town Kurbnesh was established in the east . In Rrëshen, too, factories were set up in connection with mining.

Since the collapse of communism in Albania, factories and most of the mines have been idle. Many residents had to move to the centers of the country or abroad. In the course of the rural exodus from the mountain villages, Rrëshen continued to grow, although the city hardly offers any economic prospects.

Until the summer of 2015, Rrëshen formed an independent municipality ( bashkia ), in which 8803 inhabitants lived in 2011. The local authorities, however, gave a population of 8204 people for the city alone and 15,234 inhabitants for the entire municipality, which still included 14 villages. The former municipality now forms an administrative unit (njesia administrative) within the municipality of Mirdita.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Rrëshen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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]).
  2. ↑ Bashkia Rrëshen ( Memento from October 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Njesia administrative Rrëshen. (PDF) In: Këshilli i Qarkut Lezhë. August 2, 2009, Retrieved April 29, 2019 (Albanian).