Kashar
Kashar
Municipal unit in Tirana, Albania
Kashar is a village and a former municipality in the Tirana County, central Albania. The population at the 2011 census was 43,353.[1]
The village was first attested in 1456 as the battlefield of a battle between the League of Lezhë and the Ottoman Empire.[2]
At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Tirana.[3][4]
Kashar consists of ten communities with a total population of c. 21,000 inhabitants.[5]
Kashar is the industrial hub of Tirana with many large companies located there. The biggest Albanian company that is located there is ALBtelecom, a privately owned company that offers telecommunication services. There is also Coca-Cola Bottling Shqipëria. Kashar's economy also relies on agriculture and housing due to a huge influx of people coming to Tirana. Kashar also hosts one of Tirana's main parks, Kashar Park around Kus village reservoir, and the television station Top Channel.[6]
Kashar is twinned with:
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- 2011 census results Archived 2016-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
- "History of Kashar" (in Albanian). Official website of Kashar. Archived from the original on 9 October 2010. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
- "Albania Passes Landmark Territorial Reform". 1 August 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF) (in Albanian). p. 6375. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- "Demographics of Kashar". Archived from the original on 2015-04-07. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
- MIRATIMIN E MARVESHJES SE BINJAKEZIMIT NDERMJET KOMUNES KASHAR DHE BASHKISE SINDOS SELANIK GREQI Archived 2010-10-09 at the Wayback Machine, Komuna Kashar (in Albanian)
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