Cërrik

41.0267519.98933333333385Koordinaten: 41 ° 2 ' N, 19 ° 59 ' E

Cërrik ( Albanian: Cërriku ) is a small town in central Albania, with around 6695 inhabitants ( 2011 census ), with the local authorities specify a number of 14,600 inhabitants ( 2008). It is the fourth largest municipality in the district of Elbasan. Cërrik is around ten kilometers southwest of the city of Elbasan in the plain south of the Shkumbin.

While west of the city spreads the hills of Dumreja and rise north of the Shkumbin Kodrat e Krrabës ( Krraba Hill ), extends to the south and north-east of a vast plain. Between Elbasan and Cërrik this from the large steel mill steel is the party dominates, the once tens of thousands of people from these places offered work, but whose emissions are heavily loaded the entire region. Cërrik itself was known during the communist regime in particular for its oil refinery. This was associated with a roughly two -kilometer-long dead-end with the line Durres - Elbasan Albanian Railroad Hekurudha e Shqipërisë, running along the northern shore of Shkumbin.

There, the main road linking Elbasan with the towns on the coast runs. The route is part of Corridor VIII of the Pan-European transport corridors. The road bridge over the Shkumbin located six kilometers west of the city center, so that Cërrik, despite its proximity to international transport routes away from the traffic. Also the road to Gramsh no longer runs through Cërrik since fifteen kilometers southeast of the Devoll jammed to Banja Lake and the road was moved to the east.

The city was planned as an industrial center during the communist regime. Where once only a small village lay, industrial areas and residential buildings were created. The town plan was that the refinery comes to lie outside the city to the northwest. In the meantime, however, a small private area was created at the refinery around the junction of the road to Belsh. This is from the city center but completely separated from an approximately one kilometer- wide strip of green fields.

South of the city are short-wave transmitters of Radio Tirana.

In May 1997, during the nationwide unrest six officers of a special unit of the Republican Guard were in Cërrik shot and wounded over 20 more soldiers. The assassins, who are accused that they wanted to destabilize the country are closely linked in part to the Socialist Party.