Transportation in Albania

The total length of Albania's roads had more than doubled in about three decades, and by the 1980s almost all of the country's remote mountain areas were connected, at least by dirt roads, with the capital city and ports. The country's roads, however, were generally narrow, poorly marked, pocked with holes, and in the early 1990s often crowded with pedestrians and people riding mules, bicycles, and horse-drawn carts. Even in tiny villages, hundreds of people of all ages gathered daily along main roads waving their arms seeking rides, and gan ...

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Albania is a Mediterranean country in southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Serbia and Montenegro in the north, the Republic of Macedonia in the east, and Greece in the south, has a coast on the Adriatic Sea in the west, and a coast on the Ionian Sea in the southwest. The country is an emerging democracy and is formally named the Republic of Albania (Albanian: Republika e Shqipërisë). Albania - History. Main articles: Illyria, Illyricum, Dalmatia, History of Albania. In the ar ...

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Main articles: Illyria, Illyricum, Dalmatia, History of Albania. In the area that is today Albania, human activity has been present since the beginning of human history. The earlier inhabitants were probably part of the pre-Indo-European populace that occupied the coastline of most parts of the Mediterranean. Their physical remains are scarce though, and concentrated on the coastal region. Soon, these first inhabitants were overrun by the Proto-Hellenic tribes that gradually occupied modern-day Greece, southern parts of what is ...

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Note: Before editing these articles make sure that there are not any articles already on that subject with a different spelling (instead of the letters ç and ë the letters c and e may have been used). List of Albania-related articles - 123. 8 Persona Plus List of Albania-related articles - A. Abaz Ermenji - Abaz Kupi - Abdi Toptani - Abdullah Rushdi - Abdyl Frashëri - Abdyl Ypi - Academy of Arts of Tirana - Adelina - Adhurim Resuli - ...

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Main articles: Illyria, Illyricum, Dalmatia, History of Albania. The earlier inhabitants were probably part of the pre-Indo-European populace that occupied the coastline of most parts of the Mediterranean. Their physical remains are scarce though, and concentrated on the coastal region. Soon, these first inhabitants were overrun by the Proto-Hellenic tribes that gradually occupied modern-day Greece, southern parts of what is now the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the south of present-day Albania. This process was com ...

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Main article: Economy of Albania Albania is one of Europe's most impoverished countries, with half of the economically-active population still engaged in agriculture and a fifth said to be working abroad. The country has to deal with a high unemployment rate, corruption up to high government levels and organized crime. The country has almost no exports, and imports most if its goods from Greece and Italy. Money for imports comes from financial aid and from the money that emigrants working abroad - mostly in neighbouring Greece - bring to Albania. This is a good status quo ...

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Main article: Demographics of Albania Most of the population is ethnically Albanian (95% according to the CIA World Factbook Feb 2005), there is a Greek minority (3% of the population), this however could significally vary according to other sources, (note: in 1989, other estimates of the Greek population ranged from 1% (official Albanian statistics) to 12% (from a Greek organization) [1]). Many ethnic Albanians also live in the bordering countries of Serbia and Montenegro (around 1,850,000; of that, around 1,800,000 in Serbia ...

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Main article: Politics of Albania The head of state is the president, who is elected by the Kuvendi, or the Assembly of the Republic of Albania every 4 years. The main part of the Assembly's 140 members is elected every 4 years. 100 of the parliament's members are chosen by the people with a direct vote, while the other 40 members are chosen using a proportional system. The head of government is the Prime Minister who is assisted by a council of ministers. The Council of Ministers is selected by the Prime Minister (A process called "forming the government") and then approved by a simple ...

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Main article: Demographics of Albania Most of the population is ethnically Albanian (95% according to the CIA World Factbook Feb 2005), there is a Greek minority (3% of the population), this however could significally vary according to other sources. Many ethnic Albanians also live in the bordering countries of Serbia and Montenegro (around 1,850,000; of that, around 1,800,000 in Serbia (around 1,700,000 in its province called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia) only) and around 50,000 in Montenegro) and the Republic of Macedonia (around 500,000). Since 1991, large numbers of Albanians have emigrated, both leg ...

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Main article: Politics of Albania The head of state is the president, who is elected by the Kuvendi, or the Assembly of the Republic of Albania every 5 years. The main part of the Assembly's 140 members is elected every 4 years. 100 of the parliament's members are chosen by the people with a direct vote, while the other 40 members are chosen using a proportional system. The head of government is the Prime Minister who is assisted by a council of ministers. The Council of Ministers is selected by the Prime Minister (A process called "forming the government") and then approved by a simple ...

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Main article: Economy of Albania Albania is one of Europe's most impoverished countries, with half of the economically-active population still engaged in agriculture and a fifth said to be working abroad. The country has to deal with a high unemployment rate, corruption up to high government levels and organised crime. The country has almost no exports, and imports many goods from Greece and Italy. Money for imports comes from financial aid and from the money that emigrants working abroad bring to Albania. This is a good status quo ...

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Main articles: Districts of Albania and Counties of Albania Albania is divided into 12 qark (county or prefecture), which are further divided into 36 rrethe (districts). The capital city, Tiranë, has a special status. The districts are: 1 Berat 2 Bulqizë 3 Delvinë 4 Devoll 5 Dibër 6 Durrës 7 Elbasan 8 Fier < ...

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Main article: Geography of Albania Albania consists of mostly hilly and mountainous terrain, the highest mountain, Korab in the district of Dibra reaching up to 2,753 m. The country mostly has a land climate, with cold winters and hot summers. Besides capital city Tirana, with 800,000 inhabitants, the principal cities are Durrës, Elbasan, Shkodër, Gjirokastër, Vlorë and Korçë. In Albanian grammar a word can have indefinite and definite forms, and this also applies to city names: so both Tiranë and T ...

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Kukes airport is to open in early 2006. Making this the second civilian airport in Albania. Plans are on the table for an internation airport in Vlore and Sarande. Transportation in Albania - Total paved runways. 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2002) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2002) Transportation in Albania - Total unpaved runways. 8 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 ...

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Albania's standard-gauge rail lines linked Shkodër with Durrës, Tirana, Elbasan, Pogradec, Ballsh, and Vlorë. The country's only international rail link, opened in 1986, connected Shkodër with Yugoslavia's rail system. The connection is now made through Montenegro. Albania's communist government focused on developing new rail lines to serve mining regions and the coastal plain. According to official figures, Albania's railroad in 1987 and 1988 carried about 33 percent of the country's total freight tonnage for that period. The opening of ...

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