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Hoti and Gruda on the far left side. Hoti is a historical Albanian tribe ( fis) and sub-region of Malësia, a divided area located in northern Albania and southern Montenegro. Its geography is mostly mountainous, but some of its villages are on flat terrain near the banks of Lake of Shkodër. Hoti Georgina Vasilica was mentioned for the first ...
Malësi e Madhe District. / 42.350°N 19.583°E / 42.350; 19.583. Malësi e Madhe District ( Albanian: Rrethi i Malësisë së Madhe ), commonly known as Malësia, was one of the 36 districts of Albania, which were dissolved in July 2000 and replaced by 12 newly created counties. It had a population of 36,770 in 2001, and an area of 897 ...
View of mountains in the region. Malësia e Madhe ("Great Highlands"), known simply as Malësia (Albanian: Malësia, Montenegrin: Malesija / Малесија), is a historical and ethnographic region in northern Albania and eastern central Montenegro corresponding to the highlands of the geographical subdivision of the Malësi e Madhe District in Albania and Tuzi Municipality in Montenegro.
Politically, Great Britain refers to the whole of England, Scotland and Wales in combination, [ 41] but not Northern Ireland; it includes islands, such as the Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland, that are part of England, Wales, or Scotland.
The following is a list of historical Albanian tribes and tribal regions. Some of the tribes are considered extinct because no collective memory of descent has survived (i.e. Mataruga, Rogami etc.) while others became slavicised very early on and the majority of the descendants no longer consider themselves Albanian (i.e. Kuči, Mahine etc.).
Shkreli is a historical Albanian tribe and region in the Malësia Madhe region of northern Albania and is majority Catholic.With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire, part of the tribe migrated to Rugova in Western Kosovo beginning around 1700, after which they continued to migrate into the Lower Pešter and Sandžak regions (today in Serbia and Montenegro).
Malësi e Madhe ( Albanian: [maˈləsi ˈɛ maˈðɛ]) is a municipality in Shkodër County, in northwestern Albania. The municipality consists of the administrative units of Gruemirë, Kastrat, Kelmend, Qendër, Shkrel with Koplik constituting its seat. [ 1][ 2][ 3] As of the Institute of Statistics estimate from the 2011 census, there were ...
Kelmendi is a historical Albanian tribe ( fis) and region in Malësia ( Kelmend municipality) and eastern Montenegro (parts of Gusinje Municipality ). It is located in the upper valley of the Cem river and its tributaries in the Accursed Mountains range of the Dinaric Alps. The Vermosh river springs in the village of the same name, which is ...