City · Durrës
Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
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Town · Durrës County
The industrial town on the plain below Krujë, and the site of Albania's largest cement works.
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Fushë-Krujë is on the flat land below the castle town of Krujë. It has cement and other factories.
Fushë-Krujë is on the flat land below the castle town of Krujë. It has cement and other factories.
City · Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
Town · Durrës
Skanderbeg's mountain stronghold, an old bazaar street, and the national museum of the resistance.
City · Tiranë
The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.
Town · Tiranë
A city on Tirana's northern edge that grew almost entirely from internal migration after 1991.
Town · Lezhë
An industrial town and the site of the Saint Anthony pilgrimage church at Shëngjin i Vogël.
Company · Durrës
A large cement plant at Boka e Kuqe near Krujë, built by TITAN Cement.
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