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Krujė is a town and a
municipality in north central Albania. Located between Mount
Krujė and the Ishėm River, 20 km north from the capital of
Albania, Tirana. Krujė was inhabited by the ancient Illyrian
tribe of the Albani. In 1190 Krujė became the capital of the
first autonomous Albanian state in the middle ages, the
Principality of Arbėr. Later it was the capital of the Kingdom
of Albania, while in the early 15th century Krujė was conquered
by the Ottoman Empire, but then recaptured in 1443 by Skanderbeg,
leader of the League of Lezhė, who successfully defended it
against three Ottoman sieges until his death in 1468.
The Ottomans took
control of the town after the fourth siege in 1478, and
incorporated it in their territories. A 1906 local revolt against
the Ottoman Empire was followed by the 1912 Declaration of
Independence of Albania. In the mid-1910s Krujė was one of the
battlefields of the conflict between the short-lived Republic of
Central Albania, founded by Essad Toptani, and the Principality
of Albania. In 1914 Toptani managed to seize the town but during
the same year it was reincorporated by Prźnk Bibė Doda in the
Principality of Albania. During World War II it was the center of
the activities of resistance leader Abaz Kupi.
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panoramic pix available
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| It's
quite steep and we had to change to smaller busses to
take us along the hillside |
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| Slowly
going down the hillside again |
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