Mount Korab
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The rugged Albanian side around the summit of Maja e Korabit
The Korab (Albanian Mali i Korabit, Golem Korab Macedonian / Голем Кораб ) is a mountain in the Albanian- Macedonian border. The same highest elevation Maja e Korabit / Kobilino poles ( German Korab peak ) is with 2764 meters above sea level. A. the highest mountain of the two countries. In Albania, there is also the name vargu Lindor ( German Ostkette ), but which in most cases are referred to mountains further north as the Livadaris and Gjallica.
The Korab mountain range stretches over 40 kilometers in north-south direction between the lower portion of the Black drins and its tributary radicalization. It is located around the tri-border region of Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo, south-west of the mountains Šar Planina. The ridge that forms throughout the Albanian border, hardly falls below 2000 per meter. The valley of the Drin in the West, located at about 400 meters, the bed of radicalism to about 1000 meters.
In addition to the peak Korab, there are some other, almost equally high hills. North of the twin spiers are numerous other nameless, almost equally high rock towers. The about two kilometers south west peak Korab - gate ( Maja e Portat Korabit / Mala Vrata Korapska ) reached 2727 meters, almost the height of the main summit. A few hundred meters south is another peak ( Maja e Moravës ), which is only slightly lower with 2718 meters.
The word originates from the Slavic Korab and comes from a pre-Christian god of the sea. Since the ridge along the eastern border Albanian pulls, in Albania the term vargu Lindor ( Ostkette ) is used. But this is meant on the east bank of the lower Black Drin of around 70 kilometers to the Livadaris in Kukes usually the entire mountain chain. In the literature, the Korab Mountains and the Šar Planina are sometimes to a mountain range, the Šar - Korab massif, united.
During the Balkan Wars, the front line ran through the region. Still there should be land mines in the Korab Mountains. In the border area, which was the scene of fighting between the army and Macedonian Albanian separatists until a few years ago, to be smugglers often go.
Fusha e Korabit
On top of the Maja e Korabit during the annual ascent of the Mountain Club Korab