Shijak
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Shijak Shijaku |
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Coordinates: 41 ° 21 ' N , 19 ° 34' E |
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| Basic data | |||
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| Qark : | Durrës | ||
| Municipality : | Shijak | ||
| Height : | 20 m above sea level A. | ||
| Area : | 92.19 km² | ||
| Residential place : | 7568 (2011) | ||
| Bashkia residents : | 34,513 (2011) | ||
| Population density (Bashkia): | 374 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Telephone code : | (+355) 0571 | ||
| Postal code : | 2013-2014 | ||
| Politics and administration (as of 2019 ) | |||
| Mayor : | Elton Arbana ( PS ) | ||
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 View of the main square with the mosque in the background (2016) |
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Shijak ( Albanian also Shijaku , Turkish Şayak ) is a small town with around 7500 inhabitants in central Albania in the Qark Durrës . The place is between Durrës and Tirana , around eleven kilometers from the port city and 25 kilometers from the capital. Main road, highway and railroad circumnavigate the place north in a wide arc, because east of Shijak there is a small range of hills. The city itself lies on the eastern bank of the Erzen , which meanders from south to north towards the sea.
In 2015, the Bashkia of Shijak was united with the neighboring communities of Gjepalaj (3449 inhabitants), Maminas (4463 inhabitants) and Xhafzotaj (12,381 inhabitants) to form the municipality of Shijak . Shijak previously had 7568 inhabitants (2011)
Shijak has long been a small market town by the bridge over the river. The mosque dates from the 19th century. 1466 should at this point 5000 Albanian fighters from the Ottoman Sultan , who unsuccessfully against Skanderbeg fought impaled have been. A large part of the population of Shijak is descended from Kosovars and Bosniaks who fled here in the 19th century.
In communist Albania, Shijak was a city in a heavily agricultural region. She was particularly famous for the state winery . In the 1990s, many young Shijak men looked for work in Western Europe. At the same time, many rural refugees came to the region from mountainous areas in Albania. Today Shijak benefits from its location between the metropolitan areas of Tirana and Durrës, in the vicinity of which several factories and numerous smaller production companies have sprung up.
Radio Tirana has shortwave transmission systems to the south of the city . The highest transmission mast of this station is the tallest structure in Albania at 130 meters. The medium wave -Sendeanlagen of Flakka lie northwest of Shijak. The local TV station is called Shijak TV .
The local soccer club KF Erzeni Shijak played in the second highest league in the 2015/16 season .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Durrës 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Air navigation obstacles: AIP for Albania (section ENR-5.4) valid from 30 May 2013. (No longer available online.) In: Luftfahrthandbuch Österreich. Austro Control, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 8, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
