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It is a mountainous region in northern Albania, east of Shkodra and north of the Drin, [1] including parts of western and central Accursed Mountains range within the Albanian border (Northern Mountain Range), roughly centered in the northern half of the Shkodër District (some minor parts are located in Malësi e Madhe District).
The Lead Mosque was built in 1773 by the Albanian pasha Mehmed Bushati of the noble Bushati family, who was vizier of Pashalik of Scutari at the time. [2] Through this act, he intended to give his city of birth, the feeling of the capital. [3]
He was a self-made Muslim monarch and the king of all Albanians until 1939 when Italy invaded Albania, Shkoder resisted under the lead of Mehmet Ullagaj but fell soon afterwards. [47] After 1939, Zog went into exile and Victor Emmanuel III became the king of the Albanians. Shortly after World War II, Emmanuel was formally abdicated in 1946.
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The village is most famous for the Mesi Bridge over the river Kir, a designated Category I cultural monument of Albania.It is stone bridge constructed in 1768 by Mehmed Pasha Bushati during the Pashalik period in Ottoman Albania, and is the biggest of its kind in Albania still intact, measuring 108m in length.
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