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Kuçovë
Kuçovë ( sq-definite, Kuçova) is a municipality in south-central Albania. It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Kozare, Kuçovë, Lumas and Perondi, which all became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kuçovë. The total population is 31,077 as of the 2023 census, in a total area of . The population of the municipal unit as of the 2023 census is 12,629. History Ancient Archaeologists found in the village of Katundas near Kuçovë six phases of inhabitation dating to the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, urban Illyrian and the Late Antiquity era. Modern Kuçova has been an industrial city since the Italian influence in the early 1920s. The first oil hole in Albania was drilled in 1928 in “Dikatër”, establishing the Kuçova oil field. From this moment onwards the city has been on oil maps, housing workers and their families. Since 1928, the Italian company AIPA had an agre ...
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Kuçovë Air Base
Kuçovë ( sq-definite, Kuçova) is a municipality in south-central Albania. It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Kozare, Kuçovë, Lumas and Perondi, which all became municipal units. The seat of the municipality is the town of Kuçovë. The total population is 31,077 as of the 2023 census, in a total area of . The population of the municipal unit as of the 2023 census is 12,629. History Ancient Archaeologists found in the village of Katundas near Kuçovë six phases of inhabitation dating to the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, urban Illyrian and the Late Antiquity era. Modern Kuçova has been an industrial city since the Italian influence in the early 1920s. The first oil hole in Albania was drilled in 1928 in “Dikatër”, establishing the Kuçova oil field. From this moment onwards the city has been on oil maps, housing workers and their families. Since 1928, the Italian company AIPA had an agreem ...
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Kuçovë Aerodrome
Kuçovë Air Base is an air base located near Kuçovë, Berat County, Berat, Albania. The base was built in 1952 by People's Socialist Republic of Albania and entered service in 1955. NATO and Albania government renovated the Air Base in 2024 in the context of the ongoing NATO expansion into Eastern Europe. History Construction of the air base began in 1952 and was completed in 1955. During Albanian Unrest of 1997, the 1997 crisis, Kuçovë Air Base was captured by rebels. The damage caused by the protesters was not repaired until 1999. From 2002 to 2004 the base was renovated to NATO standards. Improvements included a new control tower, new lighting, and repaving. In 2004, Albania announced plans to scrap 80 obsolete aircraft in an effort to modernize for NATO membership. The aircraft being scrapped included Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, MiG-15s, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19, MiG-19s, and Yakovlev trainers as well as Chinese-made (Shenyang Aircraft Corporation) Shenyang J-5, F-5s and S ...
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Perondi
Perondi is a village and former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality of Kuçovë. The population in the 2011 census was 9,005. General information The municipality of Perondi was the biggest one in the former Kuçovë District. It is located southeast of the town of Kuçovë. It has around 10 000 inhabitants and includes the villages of: Perondi, Tapi, Rreth-Tapi, Magjate, Goraj, Velagosht, Drize and Dikater. Perondi is the primeval village in the entire region and has supposedly existed since the Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived History of the Roman Empire, the events that caused the .... The church in the center of Perondi was built in the 11th century. References Former municipalities in Berat County Admin ...
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Municipalities Of Albania
Municipalities ( or ) are the second-level administrative divisions of Albania, below the counties and above the communes. Since the most recent administrative reforms in 2014, Albania has 61 municipalities. History Municipalities are considered the basic administrative division of Albania. Since its Declaration of Independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1912, Albania has reorganized internal administration 21 times. From independence until the year 2000, regional government was organized into regions () of varying numbers, size, and importance. They were consolidated into groups comprising 12 counties in 1991. Following the 1998 constitutional reforms, the 36 regions of the time were abolished entirely and replaced by the larger counties and two kinds of municipalities: urban municipalities () and rural ones (). In 2014, this was revised to reduce the number of urban municipalities to 61 and extended their jurisdiction over the surrounding countryside to create region ...
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Kozare, Albania
Kozare is a village and a former municipality in Berat County, central Albania Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to .... With the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality of Kuçovë. The population at the 2011 census was 5,622. References Former municipalities in Berat County Administrative units of Kuçovë Villages in Berat County Populated places disestablished in 2015 {{Berat-geo-stub ...
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Lumas
Lumas is a village and former municipality in Berat County, central Albania. With the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision of the municipality of Kuçovë Kuçovë ( sq-definite, Kuçova) is a municipality in south-central Albania. It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Kozare, Kuçovë, Lumas and Perondi, which all became municipal units. The .... The population at the 2011 census was 3,981. References Former municipalities in Berat County Administrative units of Kuçovë Villages in Berat County Populated places disestablished in 2015 {{Berat-geo-stub ...
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Katundas
Katundas is a village in the former municipality of Lumas in Berat County, Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Kuçovë Kuçovë ( sq-definite, Kuçova) is a municipality in south-central Albania. It was formed at the 2015 local government reform by the merger of the former municipalities Kozare, Kuçovë, Lumas and Perondi, which all became municipal units. The .... The archaeological site of Katundas Cavern is located in the village. References Populated places in Kuçovë Villages in Berat County {{Berat-geo-stub ...
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Kuçova Oil Field
Kuçova oil field is an Albanian oil field that was discovered in 1928. It is the second biggest on-shore oil field of Albania, after the Patos-Marinza Oil Field. The Kuçova oil field is located near the town of Kuçovë, east of the city of Fier in south central Albania. Its proven reserves are about . The field is operated by Albpetrol Albpetrol is an Albanian upstream petroleum production and marketing company, which also monitors state petroleum agreements in Albania. Its stock is owned by the Albanian state. The company is headquartered in Patos and has a representative offi ... and Sherwood International Petroleum. See also * Oil fields of Albania References Oil fields of Albania Kuçovë {{oilfield-stub ...
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Albanian Air Force
The Albanian Air Force ( - Air Force of the Republic of Albania) is the air force of Albania and one of the branches of the Albanian Armed Forces. History Early history In 1914 the government of Albania ordered three ''Lohner'' Daimler aircraft from Austria to form an air force. As a result of the outbreak of World War I, the order was cancelled. Albania did not have the resources to start the development of a proper Air Force during the 1920s and 1930s. After the establishment of the Albanian Kingdom in 1928, King Zog formed the Royal Albanian Air Corps under the direction of the Royal Albanian Army. The Royal Air Force, and the rest of Albanian armed forces, were abolished following the Italian invasion of Albania. Socialist Albania After World War II, the Albanian Air Force finally came into existence on 24 April 1951 when Albania was equipped with Soviet aircraft. The first squadron was equipped with Yak-9Ps. The first jet fighter to enter service was the MiG ...
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Albania
Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, 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. With an area of , it has a varied range of climatic, geological, hydrological and morphological conditions. Albania's landscapes range from rugged snow-capped mountains in the Accursed Mountains, Albanian Alps and the Korab, Central Mountain Range, Albania#Skanderbeg Mountains, Skanderbeg, Pindus and Ceraunian Mountains, to fertile lowland plains extending from the Albanian Adriatic Sea Coast, Adriatic and Albanian Ionian Sea Coast, Ionian seacoasts. Tirana is the capital and largest city in the country, followed by Durrës, Vlorë, and Shkodër. Albania was inhabited by several List of Illyrian peoples and tribes, Illyrian tribes, among them the A ...
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Closed City
A closed city or town is a settlement where travel or residency restrictions are applied. Historically, the construction of closed cities became increasingly common after the beginning of the Cold War, particularly in the Soviet Union. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, they remain widespread in Russia and some of the other post-Soviet countries. In modern Russia the closed cities are designated as "closed administrative–territorial formations" (ZATO; , ). Structure and operations Closed cities are sometimes represented only on Classified information, classified maps that are not available to the general public. Sometimes, closed cities are indicated obliquely as a nearby insignificant village, with the name of the stop serving the closed city made equivocal or misleading. For mail delivery, a closed city is usually named as the nearest large city and a special postcode, for example, Arzamas‑16, Chelyabinsk‑65. The actual settlement can be rather dista ...
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Shenyang Aircraft Corporation
Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) is a Chinese aircraft manufacturer in Shenyang, Liaoning and a subsidiary of AVIC. Founded in 1951 as the classified 112 Factory, it is the oldest aircraft manufacturer in the People's Republic of China. The company mainly focuses on designing and manufacturing civilian and military aircraft and related components including jet engines, as well as UAVs such as SYAC UAV. Aircraft produced by SAC include J-5, JJ-1, J-8, J-11, J-15, J-16, and J-35. Facilities * Shenyang Airframe Plant * Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute Products Fighters * J-2, Chinese variant of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15. * Shenyang J-5, Chinese variant of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. * Shenyang J-6, Chinese variant of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19. * Chengdu J-7, Chinese variant of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. Production was moved to Chengdu in the 1970s. * Shenyang J-8, Indigenously developed 3rd generation fighter aircraft. NATO reporting name Finback. ...
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