Rrogozhina
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Coordinates: 41 ° 5 ′ N , 19 ° 40 ′ E |
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| Basic data | |||
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| Qark : | Tirana | ||
| Municipality : | Rrogozhina | ||
| Height : | 50 m above sea level A. | ||
| Area : | 223.50 km² | ||
| Residential place : | 7049 (2011) | ||
| Bashkia residents : | 22,148 (2011) | ||
| Population density (Bashkia): | 99 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Telephone code : | (+355) 0577 | ||
| Postal code : | 2503 | ||
| Politics and administration (as of 2019 ) | |||
| Mayor : | Haxhi Memolla ( PS ) | ||
| Website : | |||
| Culture and history | |||
| Local place name : | Rrogozhin / Rrogozhina | ||
 View of the main street (2007) |
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Rrogozhina ( Albanian also Rrogozhinë ) is a small town in central Albania with 7049 inhabitants (as of 2011). The town is located a little north of the Shkumbin River , 23 kilometers southeast of Kavaja and 22 kilometers from the Adriatic coast in the west near Bashtova . The Shkumbin valley narrows at Rrogozhina before the river exits into the Myzeqe plain. The hills to the north, at the foot of which the city lies, rise up to 300 m above sea level. A.
Until 2015, Rrogozhina was an independent municipality ( bashkia ) . Then it was merged with other places in the south of Kavaja County , with Gosa (4120 inhabitants), Kryevidh (4662 inhabitants), Lekaj (5126 inhabitants) and Sinaballaj (1191 inhabitants). The new community has 22,000 inhabitants.
history
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It is believed that in ancient times on the site of Rrogozhina there was the city of Asparagium , where in 48 B.C. BC Caesar and his army of around 15,000 men camped before they attacked Pompey , who was in Durrës . In the area around Rrogozhina / Asparagium, the two branches of the Via Egnatia also came together. Important traffic routes still run here today.
In the Middle Ages, grain was shipped from the region via the nearby staging area at the Bashtova fortress .
During the communist era, Rrogozhina was a small industrial town with an oil and soap factory.
traffic
Rrogozhina has always been an important transport hub. It is probably symbolic that the center of the city lies in a loop of the railway. In Rrogozhina, the traffic routes for road traffic and the Albanian railroad coming from Durrës to the south and to the east through the Shkumbin valley in the direction of Elbasan share . The route to the east follows the ancient Via Egnatia to south-eastern Bania and North Macedonia and is part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor VIII . The bridges near Rrogozhina, on the other hand, are the most important crossings over the Shkumbin and connect northern and eastern Albania with the southwest of the country.
Since the construction of the SH4 road with a new bridge over the Shkumbin west of the city in 2000 and the construction of the bypass ( SH7 ) in the south, Rrogozhina's center has been relieved of through traffic.
Sports
The local football club KS Egnatia Rrogozhina plays in the third Albanian divisionategoria e dytë (season 2016/17).
sons and daughters of the town
- Hysni Alushi (* 1963), folk music singer
Web links
- Official website of the Bshkia (Albanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Tiranë 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Saimir Shpuza: Colonia Iulia Augusta Dyrrachinorum . In: Mélanges de l'École française de Rome - Antiquité . No. 126–2 , December 12, 2014, ISSN 0223-5102 , doi : 10.4000 / mefra.2558 ( revues.org [accessed November 30, 2016]).
- ^ Robert Elsie: Historical Dictionary of Albania . In: Historical Dictionaries of Europe . 2nd Edition. No. 75 . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6 , pp. 471 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ James Pettifer: Albania & Kosovo - Blue Guide . A & C Black, London 2001, ISBN 0-7136-5016-8 .
- ↑ Akademia e Shkenvace e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalori Enciklopedik Shqiptar . Tirana 1985, Rrogozhina, p. 940 .