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Town

Ballsh

The seat of Mallakastër and the site of Albania's main oil refinery, near the ruins of Byllis.

BallshiFier
Town

Cërrik

A town founded around an oil refinery in the 1950s.

CërrikuElbasan
City

Fier

The service town of the oil and farming plain, next to the ruins of Apollonia.

FieriFier
County

Fier County

The agricultural and oil-producing plain of the south-west, with the ancient city of Apollonia.

Qarku i FieritAlbania
Town

Kuçovë

An oil town and air base, called Qyteti Stalin from 1950 to 1990.

KuçovaBerat
Town

Patos

The centre of the Patos-Marinza field, the largest onshore oil field in continental Europe.

PatosiFier