Pult

Panel ( Albanian: pulti; Latin Polatum; Serbian Cyrillic Пилот ) is a landscape in northern Albania. It comprises the north-eastern, mountainous part of the district of Shkodra.

Console builds south to the Malësia e Madhe and forms the southwestern part of the Albanian Alps. Main settlement area of ​​the landscape is the valley of the river Kir with the villages Prekal, Drisht, Pog, Bruçaj, Kir, plan and Xhan. The latter five constitute the Komuna desk; the municipal office is in Pog. At about the old bridge of Mes ( Alb. Ura e Mesit ) the area of panel passes into the precincts of the city of Shkodra.

History

Panel has been inhabited since ancient times and was Polatum as one of the Illyrian civitates ( tribal regions ) in the Province Praevalitana. In the 9th century, a diocese was founded, but which included a much larger area than the current so-called landscape with last 18 parishes. In the Middle Ages Polatum was used as the name of a far greater power district, which included also the westernmost lowland areas. Desk a long time was the Slav -dominated states Duklja and Zeta. From the mid-14th century to 1420, the area was under the rule of Balšić ( Alb. Balsha or Balshaj ) who had founded their own state rings around the Skadar Lake after the collapse of the Serbian Empire. Of the Balsici desk went over to the Dukagjin family, the last Prince Lekë Dukagjini the area had until his death in 1481. As a result, the region is now expected also to the landscape Dukagjin, which is named after the extinct in the 15th century, the Principality of Albanian noble family.

Desk was already known in the Middle Ages as a purely Albanian settlement area, while in the nearby coastal towns lived primarily novels and Lake Skadar also many Slavs settled in the plains. Had in the cities and plains, the Orthodox Church can expand their influence under Byzantine and Serbian sovereignty significantly so remained desk in the mountains always Catholic. This was also during the time of Ottoman rule, which began in the late 15th century.

Presence

Today, the scenic, but not particularly suitable for farming valley of the church is populated only sparsely. A majority of the residents has moved in the past two decades in the cities. Some of the remaining inhabitants trying to tap in addition to agriculture in tourism another source of income. Offered are mountain hiking, climbing and rafting on the church.