Devoll District

The circle Devoll (Albanian: Rrethi i Devollit ) is one of the 36 administrative districts of Albania to the east of the country. The circle with an area of 429 km ² belongs to Qark Korçë. He has, according to census 26 716 inhabitants ( 2011). Capital is the town Bilisht.

Geography

Devoll is located in the extreme southeast of the country. Not far from the border crossing Kapshtica is the easternmost point of Albania. The whole eastern and southern county boundary is also border with Greece. On the Albanian side is the circle Korçë.

The district is located in the high valley of the river Devoll which in the southwest has its source. Bilisht situated at an altitude of around 900 m. In almost all directions, the level of Bilisht of Bergen is surrounded. The border crossing to Greece is located on a 1,048 m high pass. The western boundary is circular ( 1,806 m) formed by the mountain range of the Malet i Moravës with the tip of Maja e Larte, on the other side lies the town of Korca. Only at three points to open passages between the mountains. In the northwest of Devoll flows through a narrow bottleneck in the plain of Korçë. In the northeast, the long arm of the Small Prespa attracts almost to the level of Bilisht. In the southeast, the level falls in places almost seamlessly into the gorge of the Kore from the durchschlängelt here between the mountains. This river, which empties into the Aliakmon, makes about a 5 -mile loop through Albanian territory. The few drained from him square kilometers are the only territory of Albania, which does not belong to the catchment area of the Adriatic or Ionian sea, but the catchment area of the Aegean Sea.

The level of Bilisht was made available thanks to numerous drainage canals. In heavy rainfall and spring during the snowmelt water flowed through a natural flow from the small Prespa in the Devoll and so in the Adriatic Sea. The sequence was also channeled and diverted for irrigation of the plain of Korçë.

In the mountains east of Billisht along the border extensive nickel deposits are suspected.

History

In the area of the circle were cave paintings from the Iron Age ( at separation ) and found graves with jewelery of the Illyrians ( at Kuç ). The chapel in the cave of Blashtonja the Little Prespa dates from the 13th century. The cave paintings are the oldest works of art that have been found in Albania, and some of the icons from the chapel are among the oldest of its kind in the country.

Before the Second World War, the Devoll high valley was an independent county. In the socialist era, the region belonged to the circle of Korçë, from which it was separated in the local government reform of 1990 again.

Economy

The border crossing from Kapshtica is one of the major routes to Greece. Accordingly, the whole secluded from the rest of Albania region is poised to Greece and the border traffic. Thus, the period in otherwise dominated by agriculture area numerous services for the people passing through. In particular, many young men from the region have mostly been working illegally in the 1990s in Greece in order to escape poverty at home. Meanwhile, it is many managed to reunite their family.

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