Elbasan
A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.
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Kurum International is a Turkish company that bought Albania's big steel works at Elbasan after the communist system ended, and also runs some hydropower plants.
Kurum International is a Turkish company that bought Albania's big steel works at Elbasan after the communist system ended, and also runs some hydropower plants.
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A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.
An upper-middle-income economy of roughly $30 billion, led by services and tourism, with remittances and construction…
Electricity almost entirely from hydropower — which makes supply depend on rainfall.
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