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Aranitas
Aranitas is a village and a former Municipalities of Albania, municipality in Fier County, Albania. During the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality of Mallakastër. The population at the 2011 census was 2,714. The name is derived from the Arianiti family, an Albanian noble family in the late Middle Ages. Notable people *Xhemal Aranitasi, former commander in chief of the Royal Albanian Army, studied in the Monastir Military High School *Ali Shametaj, Albanian folk singer References Former municipalities in Fier County Administrative units of Mallakastër Villages in Fier County {{Fier-geo-stub ...
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Xhemal Aranitasi
Xhemal Aranitasi (aka Xhemal Araniti; 1886 in Aranitas, Mallakastër District, Fier County, Ottoman Empire, modern Albania, then — 1961 in Turkey) was a general and commander in chief of the Royal Albanian Army. He was the son of Ibrahim Aranitasi, an army colonel of the Ottoman Empire and Esma Jahobegaj. He graduated from the Monastir Military High School (now in modern North Macedonia), and then at the military academy in Istanbul, Turkey. During the Balkan wars he fought in the Ottoman army, as the leader of a machine gun unit. During World War I, when most of the territory of Albania was invaded by the Austro-Hungarian Army, he served in the Aranitas municipality as a commander of the gendarmerie. In 1920 he joined the Royal Albanian Army and four years later he was a battalion commander. In 1925, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he became the general commander of the Royal Albanian Army. Although major decisions on the Army were taken by officers of foreign origin, s ...
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Mallakastër
Mallakastër ( sq-definite, Mallakastra) is a region and a municipality in Fier County, southwestern Albania. It was created in 2015 by the merger of the present municipalities Aranitas, Ballsh, Fratar, Greshicë, Hekal, Kutë, Ngraçan, Qendër Dukas and Selitë. The seat of the municipality is the town Ballsh. The total population is 27,062 (2011 census), in a total area of 329.37 km2. It is coterminous with the former Mallakastër District. Name The municipality takes its name from the Mallakastër hills. Geography The landscape consists of fields alternated with low hills. Their highest point is the hill Shëndëlli (712 m),Soviet military maK-34-124-Б(1:50,000) not to be confused with the much higher Mount Shëndelli further south. Population The people from this region are called ''Mallakastriotë''. The population is Muslim and Orthodox Christian. The region is a center of both the Bektashi order and the Halveti order (to a lesser extent). The region is known fo ...
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Royal Albanian Army
The Royal Albanian Army () was the army of the Albanian Kingdom and King Zog I of the Albanians from 1928 until 1939. Its commander-in-chief was King Zog; its commander General Xhemal Aranitasi; its Chief of Staff was General Gustav von Myrdacz. The army was mainly financed by Italy from 1936 to 1939. List of weapons Artillery * Type 41 75 mm Mountain Gun *Skoda 75 mm Model 1928 *Cannone da 65/17 modello 13 Machine Guns * Schwarzlose MG M.07/12 *Vickers machine gun *Maxim gun Guns * Carcano M1891 *Mannlicher–Schönauer *Mauser M1893 *Mosin–Nagant Pistols * Glisenti Model 1910 Manpower and Equipment Army *78,000 officers + 1,320,000 soldiers + 1,620 NCOs *Around 4,396,000 conscripts (1939) *9 military districts *12,000 infantry battalions *2,000 motorized infantry squadrons *900 engineering companies *12,000 tribal officers + 2,986,000 tribal militia *2,970,000 carbines (Carcano M1891, Mannlicher, Mosin) *1,110,400 revolvers (Glisenti M1889) *2,319,600 rifles (Be ...
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Municipalities Of Albania
Municipalities ( sq, or ) are the second-level administrative divisions of Albania, administrative divisions of Albania, below county (Albania), counties and above administrative unit (Albania), administrative units or communes of Albania, communes. Since the most recent administrative reforms in 2014, Albania has 61 municipalities. History Municipalities are considered the basic administrative division of Albania. Since Albanian Declaration of Independence, its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania has reorganized administrative divisions of Albania, internal administration 21 times. From independence until the year 2000, regional government was organized into regions of Albania, regions () of varing numbers, size, and importance. They were consolidated into groups comprising 12 county (Albania), counties in 1991. Following the Albanian Constitution, 1998 constitutional reforms, the 36 regions of the time were abolished entirely and replaced by th ...
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Fier County
Fier County (; sq, Qarku Fier, italic=unset), officially the County of Fier ( sq, Qarku i Fierit, italic=unset), is a county in the Southern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the eighth largest by area and the third most populous of the twelve counties, with more than 286,000 people within an area of . The county borders on the Adriatic Sea to the west, the counties of Tirana to the north, Elbasan to the northeast, Berat to the east and Vlorë to the south, Gjirokastër Country to the sud east. It is divided into six municipalities, Fier, Divjakë, Lushnjë, Mallakastër, Patos and Roskovec, with all of whom incorporate forty-two administrative units. Geography Until 2000, Fier County was subdivided into three districts: Fier, Lushnjë, and Mallakastër. Before 2015, it consisted of 42 municipalities. Demography According to the last national census from 2011, Fier County had 310,331 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the county include: *Albanians = 241,163 (77.71%) *G ...
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Albania
Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea and shares land borders with Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, North Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south. Tirana is its capital and largest city, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania displays varied climatic, geological, hydrological, and morphological conditions, defined in an area of . It possesses significant diversity with the landscape ranging from the snow-capped mountains in the Albanian Alps as well as the Korab, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains to the hot and sunny coasts of the Albanian Adriatic and Ionian Sea along the Mediterranean Sea. Albania has been inhabited by different civilisations over time, such as the Illyrians, Thracians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Venetians, and Ot ...
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Arianiti Family
The House of Arianiti were an Albanian noble family that ruled large areas in Albania and neighbouring areas from the 11th to the 16th century. Their domain stretched across the Shkumbin valley and the old Via Egnatia road and reached east to today's Bitola. Names The first attested surname of the family in various forms is Ar(i)aniti, which was also used as a personal name. In documents contemporary to its members ''Araniti'' is the most prevalent form, from which almost all placenames of the areas of their domains that were named after them derive. ''Arianiti'', a rare form from the first definite documentations of the family in the late 13th and early 14th century to the extinction of its male line in the mid-16th century, became prominent in early modern era works and eventually reached a common surname status in historical discourse. The etymology of the surname is unclear; it may ultimately derive from the Indo-European word ''arya'' (noble), derivations of which can be fo ...
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in late antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. The large-scale movements of the Migration Period, including various Germanic peoples, formed new kingdoms in what remained of the Western Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East—most recently part of the Eastern Ro ...
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Former Municipalities In Fier County
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ad ...
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Administrative Units Of Mallakastër
Administration may refer to: Management of organizations * Management, the act of directing people towards accomplishing a goal ** Administrative Assistant, traditionally known as a Secretary, or also known as an administrative officer, administrative support specialist, or management assistant is a person whose work consists of supporting management, including executives, using a variety of project management, communication, or organizational skills, while in some cases, in addition, may require specialized knowledge acquired through higher education. ** Administration (government), management in or of government *** Administrative division ** Academic administration, a branch of an academic institution responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution ** Arts administration, a field that concerns business operations around an art organization ** Business administration, the performance or management of business operations *** Bachelor of Business Administrati ...
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