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The seat of Mallakastër and the site of Albania's main oil refinery, near the ruins of Byllis.
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The seat of Mallakastër and the site of Albania's main oil refinery, near the ruins of Byllis.
A town founded around an oil refinery in the 1950s.
The service town of the oil and farming plain, next to the ruins of Apollonia.
The agricultural and oil-producing plain of the south-west, with the ancient city of Apollonia.
An oil town and air base, called Qyteti Stalin from 1950 to 1990.
The centre of the Patos-Marinza field, the largest onshore oil field in continental Europe.