District of Has
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Has District Rrethi i Hasit |
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 Map showing the district within Albania |
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 Albania
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| Capital | Krumë |
Has District (Albanian: Rrethi i Hasit) was one of the thirty-six districts of Albania (which were dissolved in 2000) that is now part of Kukës County, and one of the smallest districts of Albania. It had a population of 17,419 (2010 estimate), and an area of 393 km². It is in the north-east of the country, and its capital and only municipality was Krumë.
Has District, besides the town of Krumë, comprised a number of villages which are well known for their help in 1999 in the Kosovo War against the Serbian Army, for the unprecedented hospitality given to the thousands of refugees from Kosovo (there were about 78,000 refugees staying in the homes of Has inhabitants, or more than threefold the population of the Has District at that time). Hasi is located in the border of Albania and Kosovo. The ethnographic region of Has is much wider than the District of Has, because about half of this region is located in the territory of Kosovo, from the Albania-Kosovo border to the gates of the cities of Prizren and Gjakova. Hasi was the trade center of north Albania.
Year-by-year the population of Has has been falling dramatically. European studies show that the decline in the Has population is falling due to the lack of economy so there is a huge number of people from this area migrating to countries like the United Kingdom and the United States but mostly to Tirana, the capital of Albania.
The district consisted of the following municipalities:
Note: - urban municipalities in bold
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Coordinates: 42°11′N 20°23′E / 42.183°N 20.383°E
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