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Tarin Kowt
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Yohkoh
, is the name of a Japanese artificial satellite which was put into orbit. The launch was a project of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science of the University of Tokyo. The satellite was sent into orbit on August 30, 1991. Its mission was to study the sun. On September 12, 2005 the spacecraft burned up duri...
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Gardez, Afghanistan
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Gardēz
Gardēz (, Persian: گردیز) is the capital of the Paktiā province of Afghanistan. There are about 70,000 people who live in the Province. Most of the people are Pashtun.
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Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance
Sanitary epidemiological reconnaissance is a diagnostic method in epidemiology. It was used in the Soviet Japanese campaign in WWII immediately behind the first tanks and mechanized vehicles of advancing Soviet army in case they encounter any contagious disease. The withdrawing enemy forces had poisoned many wells and ...
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Cambridge Airport
Cambridge Airport (previously Marshall Airport Cambridge UK) is a small regional airport in South Cambridgeshire, England. It is on the eastern edges of Cambridge, south of Newmarket Road and west of the village of Teversham, from the centre of Cambridge and about from London. The airport opened in 1938. It replaced t...
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Phenotypic trait
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Fortune-telling
Fortune-telling is the practice of predicting information about a person's life. It is in principle identical with the practice of divination. The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune-telling implies a l...
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Calvados (department)
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Calvados (region)
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is the reply "The New York Sun" editor Francis Pharcellus Church gave eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon (1889–1971) in his September 21, 1897 editorial after she wrote the newspaper asking "Is There a Santa Claus?" Virginia had first asked the question of her father, Dr. Philip O'...
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Dan Rather
Daniel Irvin Rather, Jr. (born October 31, 1931 in Wharton, Texas) is an American journalist and reporter. He worked with the CBS network until 2006. Controversy over documents Rather reported on that he claimed indicated President George W. Bush avoided military service during Vietnam caused him to leave "CBS Evening ...
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Lycée Edgar-Poe
The Lycée Edgar-Poe is a private secondary school in Paris in the 10th arrondissement. It is named after the American writer Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Its motto is "" ('"The interest for the student develops the student's interest"). Its director is Mrs Evelyne Clinet. It was created in 1965 under the name "Cours Ed...
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Bias (textile)
The bias of a piece of woven fabric is at 45 degrees to its warp and weft threads. Every piece of woven fabric has two biases, at right angles to each other. Fabrics which are not woven, such as felt, do not have a bias. When cut on the bias, woven fabric is more elastic as well as more fluid in movement, compared to t...
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Bias cut
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Madeleine Vionnet
Madeleine Vionnet (22 June 1876 – 2 March 1975) was a French fashion designer. She used the bias cut, made Grecian-style dresses and introduced haute couture design to high street shops. Life & career. Born into a poor family in Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Loiret, Vionnet began her apprenticeship as a seamstress at age 11....
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Shōtai
was a after "Kanpyō" and before "Engi." This period started in April 898 and ended in July 901. During this time, the reigning emperor was .
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Seve Ballesteros
Severiano Ballesteros Sota (9 April 1957 - 7 May 2011) was a Spanish golfer. Ballesteros won The Open Championship in 1979, 1984 and 1988. He won the Masters Tournament in 1980 and 1983. He was ranked number one golfer in the world for parts of the 1980s. He was born in Pedrena, Cantabria and died there, of brain canc...
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Katsuō-ji
, also known as "Katsuo-dera", is a Japanese Buddhist temple in Minō, which is in the mountains of northern Osaka Prefecture. Katsuō-ji is one in a grouping of Buddhist temples which are pilgrimage sites in the Kansai region. History. The temple site was first named Miroku-ji in 765. The name "Katsuō-ji" was given by t...
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Paktika Province
Paktika () is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the south-east of the country. Most of the people are Pashtun. Its capital is Sharana.
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Sharana
Sharana (), or Sharan (), is the capital of Paktika Province, Afghanistan. There are about 2,200 people who live in the town. References.
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Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (10 August 186521 March 1936) was a Russian composer, music teacher, and conductor. He was the director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928. He left the Soviet Union in 1928 and did not return. Glazunov successfully reconciled nationalism and cosmopolitanism in ...
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Paul Oswald Ahnert
Paul Oswald Ahnert (November 22, 1897 - February 27, 1989) was a German astronomer. He worked at the Sonneberg Observatory. He made an annual astronomical calendar called the "Kalender für Sternfreunde", which translates as the calendar for star friends. He included items in space which could easily be seen by amateur ...
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Jason Dolley
Jason Scott Dolley (born July 5, 1991) is an American actor who was in "Hatching Pete" and "Good Luck Charlie".
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Sharan, Afghanistan
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Panjshir Province
Panjshir (, meaning "Five Lions", also spelled as Panjsher) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan. It is known for not being taken by the Soviets during their occupation in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the Taliban also was unable to conquer the area. the Americans left Afghanistan on August 31 2021, allowing the Taliba...
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Bazarak
Bazarak () is a town in the Panjshir Valley, in northern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Panjshir Province. It has six villages: Khanez, Jangalak, Malaspa, Parandeh, Rahmankhil. The tomb of Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the "Lion of Panjshir", is in Bazarak.
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Bazarak e Qaramana, Panjshir
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Parwan Province
Parwān (Dari/Pashto: پروان), also spelled Parvān, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. There are about 560,000 people. The capital is Charikar. The most populous ethnic group in the province are Tajiks followed by Pashtuns and Hazaras. In 329 BC, Alexander the Great formed the settlement of Parwan. It wa...
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Charikar
Charikar () is a city in northern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Parwan Province. The city is on the road 69 km from Kabul. Charikar is known for its pottery and high-quality grapes.
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Treaty of Rawalpindi
The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, also known as the Treaty of Rawalpindi, was a treaty which brought the Third Anglo-Afghan War to an end. It was signed on 8 August 1919 in Rawalpindi by Great Britain and Afghanistan. Britain recognised Afghanistan's independence (as per Article 5 of the treaty), agreed that British Ind...
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Demography of Afghanistan
Afghanistan has around 29.8 million people as of the year 2011. About 2.7 million Afghan refugees are living in Pakistan and Iran. The country is multi-ethnic and multi-lingual. Most of Afghanistan's people are of the Iranic peoples. The Pashtun is the largest group followed by Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Aimak, Turkmen, Bal...
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Samangan Province
Samangan () is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. About 313,211 people live in the Province, as of 2006. The capital is Samangan.
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Samangan
Samangan (previous: Eukratidia; then Aybak or Aibak) is the capital of Samangan Province in the northern part of Afghanistan. It was a major Buddhist centre during the 4th and 5th centuries. The town is on the banks of the Khulm River valley below the Hindu Kush Mountains. Many Uzbek people live in the town.
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Aybak Samangan
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Aybak
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Sar-e Pol Province
Sar-e Pol, also spelled Sari Pul (), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the north of the country. The capital is the city of Sar-e Pol. Dari (Persian) is the main language. About 442,261 people live in the Province. There are many mountains, especially in the south part. Districts. The provinc...
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Sar-e Pol, Afghanistan
Sar-e Pol or Sari Pul () is the capital city of the province of Sar-e Pol in northern Afghanistan. It is in Sari Pul District. About 115,463 people live in the city.
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Sar-e Pol (city)
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To each according to his contribution
According to the principle of 'To each according to his contribution', during the transition of a society from capitalism to socialism and then to communism, individuals should be rewarded for the amount they contribute to society. Economists such as David Ricardo (1772-1823) had this idea. Ricardo founded a movement t...
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Takhar Province
Takhār () is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. The capital is Taloqan. Its salt mines are one of Afghanistan's major mineral resources.
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Taloqan
Tāloqān (, also Tāleqān or Tāluqān) is the capital of Takhar Province, in northern Afghanistan. It is in the Taluqan District. About 196,400 people live in the city.
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Takhār Province
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Wardak Province
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Maidan Wardak Province
Wardak Province (also spelled Wardag, or Vardak, , ) is one of thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan. It is in the central east part of Afghanistan. About 540,100 people live in the province. The capital is Maidan Shar.
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Maidan Shar
Maidan Shar ( - Maidān Šhār; ; also "Maydan", "Meydan", "Maidan") is the capital of Wardak Province, Afghanistan. About 35,008 people live in the town as of 2003. On 21 January 2019, over 100 people were killed in a terrorist attack. Economy. Most of the people in Maidan Shar do agriculture, livestock, gardening and tr...
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Meydan Shahr
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Zabul Province
Zabul () is a historic province in southern Afghanistan. Qalat is the capital. About 275,100 people live in the province. The major ethnic group is Pashtun. Districts. Zabul is surrounded by Paktika and Ghzani provinces in the east, Urozgan province in the north, Kandahar province in west and southwest, and Balochista...
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Qalati Ghilji
Qalat () is a town in southern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Zabul Province. It is linked by a highway with Kandahar to the west and Ghazni to the east. In 2006, Zabul's first airstrip was built near Qalat.
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Afghan afghani
The afghani is the type of money used in Afghanistan. 100 pul make 1 afghani. Pul coins are not used any longer. In 2005, coins with a value of 1, 2 and 5 Afghani were made.
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RBC Center
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St. Pete Times Forum
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Pamir languages
The Pamir languages or Pamiri languages are a group of the Eastern Iranian languages. Many people in the Pamir Mountains, mostly along the Panj River speak the language. This includes the Badakhshan Province of northeastern Afghanistan and the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province of eastern Tajikistan. Smaller communit...
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Pamiri languages
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Durrës
Durrës is the second largest city of Albania. It is on the central Albanian coast, about west of the capital Tirana. It is one of the most ancient and economically important cities of Albania. Durrës is at one of the narrower points of the Adriatic Sea. It is opposite the Italian ports of Bari ( away) and Brindisi ( aw...
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Settlements in Albania
This is a list of municipalities () of Albania. They are sorted by county and by district.
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Cities in Albania
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List of cities in Albania
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Counties of Albania
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Republic of Kosovo
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Elbasan
Elbasan is a city in central Albania. It is on the Shkumbin River in the District of Elbasan and the County of Elbasan. It is one of the largest cities in Albania. There are about 79,810 people.
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Vlora
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Vlorë
Vlorë is a city in Albania. It is the second largest port city of Albania. There are 79,948 people who live here. It is on the Adriatic Sea, almost surrounded by mountains. Vlorë is where the Albanian Declaration of Independence was proclaimed on November 28, 1912. The city was for a short time the capital of Albania. ...
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Districts of Albania
Albania is divided into 36 districts. Districts are grouped into counties or prefectures, of which there are 12. The districts are:
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Flag of Albania
The flag of Albania () is a red flag, with a silhouetted black double-headed eagle in the centre.
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Coat of arms of Albania
The coat of arms of Albania is similar to the flag of Albania. It is based on the seal of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg. The picture above the head of the two-headed eagle is the helmet of Skanderbeg. The helmet also has billy goats' horns.
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Bamir Topi
Bamir Myrteza Topi (born 24 April 1957 in Tirana) is an Albanian diplomat and politician. He served as President of Albania from 2007 to 2012.
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Sali Berisha
Sali Berisha (born 15 October 1944) is an Albanian politician. He was the Prime Minister from 2005 to 2013. He was the President of Albania from 1992 to 1997.
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The Godfather Part III
The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American crime drama movie directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola, that stars Al Pacino and Diane Keaton. The movie is set in 1989 and 1990. It is the sequel to "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II". It received mixed to positive reviews and did well at the box office. This...
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Architecture of Singapore
The architecture of Singapore shows influences and styles from different places and periods. Singapore architecture may be divided into two periods: the more traditional pre-World War II colonial period, and the modern post-war and post-colonial period. Pre-colonial architecture. Malay houses built in the 'kampong' sty...
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Berat County
The County of Berat is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts Berat, Kuçovë, and Skrapar. Its capital is Berat. It is 123 km south of Tirana, the capital of Albania.
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Dibër County
The County of Dibër is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The districts are Bulqizë, Dibër, and Mat. Its capital is Peshkopi.
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Durrës County
The County of Durrës is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts Durrës and Krujë. Its capital is Durrës.
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Elbasan County
The County of Elbasan is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has districts Elbasan, Gramsh, Librazhd and Peqin. Its capital is Elbasan.
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Semi-presidential republic
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Berber language
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Diarchy
Diarchy (or dyarchy) is a form of government where two people are usually the heads of state. The word comes from the Greek "δι-" "two elements" and "ἀρχή", "rule" (from ἄρχω; -αρχία is a derived suffix). The term duumvirate is a hyponym (from Latin duumvirātus, "male diarchy") but some people use it erroneously for wo...
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Republic of San Marino
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Kingdom of Swaziland
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List of heads of government of Andorra
The Head of Government is the main person in charge of the government of the Principality of Andorra. The current "Cap de Govern" is Xavier Espot Zamora.
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Prime Minister of Andorra
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Co-Princes of Andorra
The Co-Princes of Andorra are the two rulers of the Principality of Andorra. Andorra is a tiny landlocked nation in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain. Currently, the Bishop of Urgell and the President of France are Andorra's co-princes, making the former also one of the two Roman Catholic figures to both ...
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Presidential system
A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, with the title of president, is in charge of an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers. This head of government is in most cases also the head of stat...
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History of Bangladesh
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United States Department of the Army
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Commonwealth of Virginia
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Cumulus
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Pop-rock
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Epidemiological
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Juan Luis Vives
Juan Luis Vives (), also Joan Lluís Vives i March () (6 March 1493 – 6 May 1540), was a Valencian Spanish scholar and humanist. He lived during the reign of Charles I of Spain (technically under Philip II of Spain, as Charles was more preoccupied with the Holy Roman Empire). He caused great upset during this period of ...
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Juan luis vives
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Alexey Arhipovsky
Alexey Arhipovsky (; May 15, 1967) – is a Russian balalaika virtuoso player. He was born in the town of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, Russia on May 15, 1967. His father played the garmon and accordion. At the age of 9, Arhipovsky started at musical school to study the balalaika. Later he entered Gnessin State Musical Co...
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Major movie studio
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Kate
The name Kate [ keyt ] is a girl's name. It's a variant of the name Katherine. The name Kate comes from the Greek name Katherine, which means "pure" or "clear." A woman named Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who lived during the fourth century and was known for her intelligence and beauty, helped to popularize the name a...
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Fier County
The County of Fier is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts of Fier, Lushnjë and Mallakastër. The capital is Fier. Fier's western edge is the shoreline of the Adriatic Sea.
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Gjirokastër County
Gjirokastër County is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts Gjirokastër, Përmet, and Tepelenë. The capital is Gjirokastër. There are some Greek people who live here. To the southeast, Gjirokastër shares a border with Greece.
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Korçë County
The County of Korçë is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It is in the eastern part of the country. It is the largest county of Albania. The districts are Devoll, Kolonjë, Korçë and Pogradec. The capital is Korçë. The county borders North Macedonia to the northeast and Greece to the southeast.
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Kukës County
The County of Kukës is one of the 12 counties of Albania. The districts are Has, Kukës and Tropojë. The capital is Kukës. To the east, Kukës borders Kosovo. The northwest borders Montenegro. The southeast borders North Macedonia.
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Lezhë County
Lezhë County is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts Kurbin, Lezhë and Mirditë. The capital is Lezhë. The majority of its population is Catholic. Lezhë has a small western shoreline on the Adriatic Sea. Demographics. According to the last national census from 2011 this county has 134,027 inhabitants....
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Shkodër County
Shkodër County is one of the 12 counties of Albania. It has the districts Malësi e Madhe, Pukë and Shkodër. The capital is the city of Shkodër. The majority of the population is Catholic. In its southwest, Shkodër County has a small shoreline on the Adriatic Sea. The northern border is Montenegro.