Bradashesh

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Bradashesh ( Albanian: Bradasheshi ) is a village in central Albania is west of the city of Elbasan in the district of Elbasan. The place is the center of the homonymous municipality ( Alb. Komuna ), which has 10,700 inhabitants (2011) and 16 other towns includes: Balez Lart, Balez Poshtë, Kusarth, Kozan, Karakullak, Letan Rrila, Shtëmaj, Ulen, Katund i ri, Fikas, Patresh, Shënmehill, Shijon, recan and Gurabardh.

Bradashesh is located just north of the large industrial site, which had been built during the Stalinist rule the country under Enver Hoxha. The place is located on the northern edge of the wide valley of the Shkumbin River. Distance to the city center of Elbasan there are little more than four kilometers. As western neighboring community Elba Sans is the second largest in the county. Between place and river is the large steel industrial site of the party. The formerly largest metallurgical operation in the country with a maximum output of 600,000 tons of steel per year employed until the fall 1990 about 12,000 workers and polluted the environment of the valley very much. Many towns in the municipality are scattered north of the town in the hill country.

In Bradashesh different roads come together: the road from Tirana over the Krraba Pass to Korçë ( SH3 ) and the important east-west connection from Durres on Rrogozhina to Elbasan ( SH7 ) and further the Macedonian border, which is also part of the international Pan-European corridor VIII. This, the river of Shkumbin following route follows the longest railway line from Durrës Albania Pogradec after that Bradashesh happened on the southern edge. The east-west axis follows the ancient Via Egnatia. From this time the remains of horse -changing station mutations Ad Quintum, a larger facility with spas testify probably from the second half of the 2nd century.

The municipal council ( Alb. Këshilli Komunës i ) consists of 17 members, distributed as follows on the respective political parties (2012 ):

  • Democratic Party of Albania: 3
  • Socialist Party of Albania: 3
  • Socialist Movement for Integration: 2
  • Albanian Republican Party: 1
  • Social Democratic Party of Albania: 1
  • Social Democracy Party of Albania: 1
  • Independent: 1
  • Small parties: 5

Mayor of the municipality is Sabri Sollaku.

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