Blinisht, Lezhë

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Blinisht ( Albanian: Blinishti ) is a village and a municipality in the district of Lezha in northern Albania. The place is located in the Zadrima level that is crossed by Altlauf the Drin. The district main town of Lezha is situated about twelve kilometers south, some 25 kilometers north of Shkodra and the Adriatic sea - separated by two ranges of hills - less than ten kilometers to the southwest.

The municipality has an area of ​​38 square kilometers and according to the census of 3361 inhabitants in 2011. Local authorities say about 5,700 inhabitants. It is very rural and is in addition to the main town Blinisht where something more than a thousand people live (2011), from the six villages Troshan, Fishta, Krajna, Piraj, Baqël and Kodhel. They are all located in the eastern part of the plane or at the bottom of a slope.

Blinisht belongs to Zadrima, a fertile plain, which represents Catholic region as well as an ethnographic region. The parish of Blinisht - then Blijnisti - was described in the 17th century by Frang Bardhi as the richest and largest of Albania. He described Blinisht as large village which owes its wealth to 150 Christian families. Also in Troshan was at that time one of the nine churches of the Zadrima. 1639 one of the first schools of Albania was opened in Blinisht, in the first Franciscans also held classes in Albanian. In the village Fishta was born in 1871, the Franciscan Gjergj Fishta, probably the most important poet of northern Albania.

Today in Blinisht is a new, large church.

On the west of the municipality runs the highway Lezha - Shkodra (SH1 ). Since their construction, shortly after 2000, the previously inaccessible region is better developed. At the village Baqël is a stop of the Albanian Railroad.

The toponym derives from the tree genus der Linden (Albanian: bli ), which often occurs in this region.