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The town is still renowned for its historic architecture and scenic beauty and is known as the "Town of a Thousand Windows", due to the many large windows of the old decorated houses overlooking the town. It is unclear whether it really means "Thousand" (një mijë) or "One over Another" (një mbi një) windows. Indeed, the quarter is built in a very steep place and windows seem to be one over another. Same views can be admired also in Gjrokastër (Albania) and Catanzaro (Italy) where once an Albanian minority lived. The Citadel overlooks the river and the modern city as well as the old Christian quarter across the river. It is a well preserved area containing narrow streets, Turkish houses and Orthodox churches. Modern Berat consists of three parts divided by the Ossum River: Goritsa ("little mountain" in Old Slavonic, Mangalem and Kalaja, the latter being a residential quarter within the old Byzantine citadel that overlooks the town. The town also has a 15th century mosque and a number of churches of the Albanian Orthodox Church, whose autocephaly was proclaimed there in 1922. Several of the churches house works by the renowned 16th century painter Onufri.
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LushnjëFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search
Coordinates:  40°56′N, 19°42′E
Lushnjë (Albanian: Lushnjë (spelling LushñƏ) or Lushnja. Lushnjë dialect: Lushnje or Lushnja) is a city of Central-West Albania located at 40.95°N, 19.71°E. It is the center of the District of Lushnjë in the County of Fier and has a population of about 280,000 (2003 est.). The town was founded in late medieval time by a Turkish widow called Salushe. She built a restoring point in the way passing from Durrës to Berat. This way the town was born. As of the end of the year 2000, old men still call the city Salushe. In January 1920, Lushnjë was a provisional capital of Albania and the place of the Congress of Lushnjë. Chieftains of Albania assembled in town and they declared Tirana first a provisional and then the definitive capital of Albania. The Lushnjë district is known as a main provider of agricultural products to the rest of the country. It is one of very few field districts of mountainous Albania. The first cooperative in Albania was created in Krutja, a village of Lushnja. All the people of Krutja participated in this event and they are proud for this. Lushnja is the birthplace of these famous people:
LezheFrom WikitravelEurope : Mediterranean Europe : Albania : Lezhe Jump to: navigation, search Contents
Lezhë is a small city in Albania. Lately there has been new development, and a lot of new houses and hotels have been built. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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