Rrogozhinë

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Rrogozhina ( Albanian: Rrogozhinë ) is a small town in central Albania with 7049 inhabitants ( 2011). The town is located in the district of Kavaja on the north bank of the river Shkumbin, 15 km as the crow southeast of Kavaja, 8 km west of Peqin, 30 km southwest of Tirana and 17 km from the shores of the Adriatic Sea in the west. The Shkumbintal narrows at Rrogozhina before the river emerges into the Myzeqe level. The hills to the north, at the foot of the city is located, up to 300 m above sea level rise. A..

History

It is believed that the city Asparagium was at the point of Rrogozhina in ancient times, where in the year 48 BC Caesar and his army encamped around 15,000 men complete before they attacked the located in Durres Pompey.

Traffic

Rrogozhina - under communism a small industrial town - is an important transportation hub. It is also symbolic that the center of the city lies in a loop of the railway. In Rrogozhina share coming from Durres routes for road transport and the Albanian Railroad to the south and east through Shkumbintal towards Elbasan. The route to the east follows the ancient Via Egnatia to southeast Albania and Macedonia, and is part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor VIII The facilities on Rrogozhina bridges on the other hand are the most important transitions over the Shkumbin and connect Northern and Eastern Albania to the southwest of the country. Since the construction of the highway SH4 with a new bridge over the Shkumbin in 2000, only the traffic to and from Elbasan ( SH3 ) torments through the city center.

Sports

The local football club KS Egnatia Rrogozhina plays in the second Albanian league.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Hysni Alushi (* 1963 ), folk music singer
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