Elbasan
A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.
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Librazhd is a town in a river valley on the road east. Behind it is a national park with old beech forests and lynx.
Librazhd is a town in a river valley on the road east. Behind it is a national park with old beech forests and lynx.
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A central industrial city inside an Ottoman fortress wall, on the old Via Egnatia.
Old-growth beech forest on the North Macedonian border, part of a UNESCO-listed primeval forest network.
The river that splits Albania in two — the historic dividing line between Gheg and Tosk.
A former nickel-mining town on the road to Lake Ohrid.
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