Klos (Mat)

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Klos ( Albanian: Klosi ) is a municipality and a town in Albania. The municipality is located in the valley of the mat in the same circle Mat around 20 kilometers south of the main town circle Burrel. The municipality has 7873 inhabitants ( 2011 census ), the local authorities reported even 10,967.

The place Klos lies at the southern end of the Mat Valley directly on the right bank about 250 meters above the Adriatic. In the south, where the mat has geform deep gorges, and in the west the mountains quickly rise steeply. Less steep is the rugged hill country to the east. Only after a few kilometers, they rise in the time i Allamanit steep 2100 meter high mountains, the Maja e Kreshtës (2100 müa ) and the Mali i Micekut ( 2101 müa ) to. In the south and east, the mountains do not reach quite as high altitudes.

In Klos lead to the Perroi i Darsit from the West and the East Perroi i Kukatinit from two major streams in the Mat Although Klos is center location for Southern Mattal with schools, shops, administration and health care, the area is still heavily dominated by agriculture. In the mountain range of the time i Allamanit east of Klos there is plenty of chrome, which is strongly reduced again in small, private studs since the late 2000s. Even the communist time, some mines were built there. In Klos, a chromium plant should be built, which is primarily funded in Bulqiza ores should have been processed up to 2000 tons per day. A conveyor tunnel would have delivered the ore from the mines to the south, on a new railway line in the Hekurudha Shqiptare they should be transported further. In the late 1980s began with the extension of the railway from Rrëshen about Burrel to the location of this chromium plant south of Klos. The line was never completed. The railway embankment and various bridges are still well visible between Burrel and Klos, together with the various industrial buildings and remains of the chrome work on the south of the village of Loos and further in the valley.

Klos is on the road SH 6 connecting Dibra with the centers of the country. The road was indeed renewed over long distances, but is still narrow and winding. To the north it follows the valley of the Mat until its entry into the coastal plain in Milot. To the east it leaves Klos at the Mattal and rises towards Bulqiza to pass Qafa e Buallit, which is about 550 meters higher. On this piece e Arbërit is built on the new Rruga, the core of which is a direct connection through the mountains of Klos to Tirana. This two-lane road with various bridges and tunnels would be at least two-thirds shorten the 120 km long drive to Tirana significantly.

In addition to the main town Klos Qender ( center ) include the following villages of the municipality: Bejn, Klos Katund, Shengjun, i plan Bardhë, Fullqet, Dars, Fshat, Bel, Unjata, Plesha, Cerruja, godmother and Bershin. Maps shall usually two places called Klos in the immediate vicinity of one hand, the old toilets on the hill, the Klos - Katund or loos - Fshat referred ( both mean Klos - village) is. Klos - Katund is still known today for some beautiful old houses that are partially listed and are identical to the main road. The largest and most include the local museum Muzeu i Kultures Popullore të krahinës se Matit.

In the capital Klos around a fifth of the residents of the community are at home. Still in 1979 to only 600 people lived here in 1987 with 800 little more. At the site of today's town was still up to the Second World War, not much more than a marketplace that Pazar i Ures ( Bazaar of the bridge ), Bazar Matit ( Mat- Bazar ) or loos i poshtmë (sub Klos ) was called.

"In the Matja there is no city. An urgent need for a market- it is still there. It is held every week in the middle of the countryside at the point that is most accessible from all sides. It is the Mati ford at Klos i poshtmë (sub Klos ). The village is situated on top of the surface of the basin fill. From it rises to about half an hour down to the river, and in its narrow valley, on a small flat spot next to the ford, under big old trees, is the market place. No house or just shack indicates that a lively bustle in this silent place on market days, where farmers from further round to sell their products, eggs and cheese, garlic, onions, tomatoes, etc., the shopping of what they needed to come together, where the blood of many slaughtered sheep and goats running down in the sand. "

" Because the site is not permitted closed village settlements. The markets are not permanently inhabited places, but accumulations of one-sided open stone huts that are used only on market days. So we saw them in the bazaar i Ures at the ( demolished ) Matbrücke the community toilets and also in on Lisa, Serbenweg ' "

The marketplace was on the caravan route, the further association Tirana over the mountains to the southern part of the valley and Dibra in the east. Even today, several old stone bridges in the town and in the vicinity of this important transport routes that were in use before the Second World War. It was only created in 1971 from the Stragj called district an urban settlement. In earlier settlements several tumuli interpret from Illyrian times. A first mention of the place as kilos dates from the 15th century.

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