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Mountain tea is made from a flowering plant that grows high in the Albanian mountains. People pick and dry it, then boil the stems and flowers. It is drunk especially in winter.

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Mountain tea is made from a flowering plant that grows high in the Albanian mountains. People pick and dry it, then boil the stems and flowers. It is drunk especially in winter.

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Sideritis montana L. subsp. montana , syn. Stachys bicolor (Moench) E.H.L.Krause Original Description Zweifarbiger Ziest, Stachys bicolor
Historical view Sideritis montana Sturm23 Johann Georg Sturm (Painter: Jacob… · Public domain

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Mountain range

The Albanian Alps

The limestone wall of the far north — locally the Accursed Mountains — shared with Montenegro and Kosovo.

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Agriculture in Albania

A large share of employment on very small holdings — the legacy of the 1991 land redistribution.

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  • Wikipedia — Sideritis — English Wikipedia · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Used to ground the deep-research section and as a discovery aid; not relied on alone for contested claims.
  • Wikidata — Wikidata item Q431310 · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
    Source of the population, area and elevation figures shown in Quick facts, each with its own observation year.
  • Wikimedia Commons — Photographs · retrieved 03 Sep 2026
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