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Top 9 Beautiful Places To Visit in Albania

Top 9 Beautiful Places To Visit in Albania


#1. Tirana

Tirana, the capital of Albania, is known for its colorful Ottoman-, Fascist- and Soviet-era architecture. Pastel buildings surround the city's focal point, Skanderbeg Square, which is named for its equestrian statue of a national hero. On the square's north end is the modernist National History Museum, covering prehistoric times through Communist rule and the anti-Communist uprisings of the 1990s.


#2. Durrës

Durrës is a port city on the Adriatic Sea in western Albania, west of the capital, Tirana. It’s known for its huge Roman amphitheater. Nearby is a 9th-century church with mosaic-covered walls. The Archaeological Museum displays pieces from the Greek, Hellenistic and Roman periods. Broad Durrësi Beach has shallow waters. Nearby is the former summer villa of 20th-century King Zog.


#3. Lake Ohrid

Lake Ohrid straddles the mountainous border between southwestern Macedonia and eastern Albania. It is one of Europe's deepest and oldest lakes, preserving a unique aquatic ecosystem that is of worldwide ...


#4. Sarandë

Sarandë is a resort on the Albanian Riviera, in southern Albania. Sandwiched between the Ionian Sea and hills of olive groves, the town is on a horseshoe-shaped bay, edged by beaches and a promenade. In the center are the archaeological remains of a 5th-century synagogue, later an early Christian basilica. Intricate floor mosaics are still evident. The 16th-century Lëkurësi Castle is on a hilltop above the town.


#5. Lake Skadar

Lake Skadar — also called Lake Scutari, Lake Shkodër and Lake Shkodra — lies on the border of Albania and Montenegro, and is the largest lake in Southern Europe. It is named after the city of Shkodër in northern Albania. It is a karst lake.


#6. Buthrotum

Buthrotum was an ancient Greek and later Roman city and bishopric in Epirus. Inhabited since prehistoric times, Buthrotum was a city of the Greek tribe of the Chaonians, later a Roman colony and a bishopric.


#7. Shkodër

Shkodër or Shkodra, historically known as Scodra, is a city in the Republic of Albania. It is the capital of the surrounding county of Shkodër, one of 12 constituent counties of the republic.


#8. Berat

Berat is a city on the Osum River, in central Albania. It's known for its white Ottoman houses. On a hilltop, Berat Castle is a huge compound now inhabited by townspeople. Within its walls are Byzantine churches, the Red Mosque and the Onufri National Museum, with Christian icons. East is the Ethnographic Museum, in an 18th-century house, displaying traditional crafts and part of a reconstructed medieval bazaar.


#9. Gjirokastër

Gjirokastër is a city in southern Albania, on a valley between the Gjerë mountains and the Drino, at 300 metres above sea level.

20 - Backpacking Republic of Macedonia

Incredible hitchhiking journey; enjoying Skopje, cooling off in Matka canyon, interacting with locals in Mavrovo, and beautiful Lake Ohrid.


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Continuing on with my Balkan voyage brings me to my last and final former republic of the former Yugoslavia. From Prishtina, Kosovo, I arrived in the capital city of Skopje. Skopje is an interesting city due to the two sides that are complete opposites. In the east of the river, you have the old town Bazaar which resembles a little Istanbul, with many small cafes and mosques. Crossing the old stone bridge to the other side of the river, is the new side. Skopje 2014 was a massive makeover for this city, and now many monuments, statues, and new/renovated buildings stand in the old square and around the city. While the makeover is not accepted by many Macedonians, it certainly has brought a new personality to the center, and it's quite interesting.

Skopje, next to Athens and Podgorica was one of the hottest cities I've been to on my European voyage. Fortunatly, the nearby Matka Canyon was the means to cool off in the shade as well as in the COLD COLD COLD river. In this canyon, you can rent kayaks as well as take boat tours down the canyon. For me, I was good enough with a nice walk along the path down the canyon. In the end, it was definitely the place to cool off.

On my travel day, I was initially going to catch a bus to avoid the heat. And I was persuaded not to. But last minute, I hit the edge of the city, and found a ride to Tetovo and another to my desired stop, Mavrovo National Park. This is a massive park in the west of the country bordering Albania with many beautiful lakes, mountains, valleys, and villages. I was lucky enough to catch a ride with a Dutch couple going to Ohrid and also lucky enough to join them on a journey finding a waterfall. In the process, we picked up a villager who was kind enough to all the way to the waterfall, Duf Falls. After we were greeted and wished a great journey away, we stopped for a beer and enjoyed more view of the mountains before parting ways in Ohrid and being welcomed into my Airbnb.

In Ohrid, I was extremely lucky to have one of the most budget friendly but valued Airbnb's to date. I had a full kitchen and dining room on one floor with a bed room and terrace on the second floor with a pretty nice view of the lake for only 20 Euros. What a steal. As for my time in this region, due to the heat and the long day before, I simply enjoyed roaming around town and skipped the boat excursion across the lake. I enjoyed my last meal of Cevapi, walked the waterfront, walked through the town, up Samuel's Fortress for panoramic views of Mavrovo, the town, the Lake, the Albanian border and beyond. And to end the day just right, I enjoyed the picturesque view of St Johns church over the lake and enjoyed a nice sunset swim in the lake to cool off after a week of extreme hot weather.

To wrap up my time in the former Yugoslavia, I finally caught a short ride in a Yugo and hitchhiked my way to the Albanian border to Tirana.

I not only had the pleasure of spending a memorable time in Macedonia but a pleasure of befriending many incredible people. :)
Cheers/ Na zdravje

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Macedonia, is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991.

It became a member of the United Nations in 1993 but, as a result of a dispute with Greece over its name, it was admitted under the provisional reference of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, sometimes abbreviated as FYROM.
A landlocked country, the Republic of Macedonia is bordered by Kosovo to the northwest, Serbia to the north, Bulgaria to the east, Greece to the south and Albania to the west.

It constitutes approximately the northwestern half of the larger geographical region of Macedonia, which also comprises parts of Greece and Bulgaria. The country's capital is Skopje, with 506,926 inhabitants according to the 2002 census. Other cities include Bitola, Kumanovo, Prilep, Tetovo, Ohrid, Veles, Štip, Kočani, Gostivar, Kavadarci and Strumica. It has more than 50 lakes and sixteen mountains higher than 2,000 m (6,562 ft). Macedonia is a member of the UN and the Council of Europe. Since December 2005 it has also been a candidate for joining the European Union and has applied for NATO membership.

History of Macedonia

Hellenic Macedonia

Prior to the 4th century BC, the Greek kingdom covered a region approximately corresponding to the Western and Central parts of province of Macedonia in modern Greece.

The Greek kingdom was situated in the fertile alluvial plain, watered by the rivers Haliacmon and Axius, called Lower Macedonia, north of the mountain Olympus.

Around the time of Alexander I of Macedon, the Argead Macedonians started to expand into
Upper Macedonia, lands inhabited by independent Greek tribes like the Lyncestae and the Elmiotae and to the West, beyond Axius river, into Eordaia, Bottiaea, Mygdonia, and Almopia, regions settled by, among others, many Thracian tribes.

Upper Macedonia
(Greek: Ἄνω Μακεδονία, Ánō Makedonía) is a geographical and tribal term to describe the regions that became part of the Greek kingdom of Macedon in the early 4th century BC. From that date, its inhabitants were politically equal to Lower Macedonians. Upper Macedonia was divided in the regions of Elimeia, Eordea, Orestis, Lynkestis, Pelagonia and Deuriopus.

A unified Macedonian state was eventually established by King Amyntas III (c. 393--370 BC), though it still retained strong contrasts between the cattle-rich coastal plain and the fierce isolated tribal hinterland, allied to the king by marriage ties.

Occupying the bigger part of northern Greece, Macedonia first appears on the historical scene as a geographical-political unit in the 5th century BC, when it extended from the upper waters of the Haliakmon and Mount Olympus to the river Strymon. In the following century it reached the banks of the Nestos.

To the north of Macedonia lay various non-Greek peoples such as the Paeonians due north, the Thracians to the northeast, and the Illyrians, with whom the Macedonians were frequently in conflict, to the northwest.

To the south lay Thessaly, with whose inhabitants the Macedonians had much in common both culturally and politically, while to west lay Epirus, with whom the Macedonians had a peaceful relationship and in the 4th century BC formed an alliance against Illyrian raids.

The term Archaic Greece refers to the time three centuries before the classical age, between 800 B.C. and 500 B.C.—a relatively sophisticated period in world history. Archaic Greece saw advances in art, poetry and technology, but most of all it was the age in which the polis, or city-state, was invented. The polis became the defining feature of Greek political life for hundreds of years.

Ancient Macedonians were fundamentally Greeks.
They were Greek speakers and ethnically they were Greek.

The name of the ancient Macedonians is derived from Macedon, who was the grandchild of Deukalion, the father of all Greeks.
This we mayinfer from Hesiod's genealogy. It may be proven that Macedonians spoke Greek since Macedon, the ancestor of Macedonians, was a brother of Magnes, the ancestor of Thessalians, who spoke Greek.

The Hellenes, as the Greeks of Classical times called themselves, traced their ancestors back to Thessaly, then ruled by Deucalion's Descendants Hellen, the war-loving king, and his sons Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus', and to southern MACEDONIA where Magnes and Macedon, delighting in horses, lived in the area of Olympus and Pieria'

but it was also an era of unprecedented political and cultural achievement. Besides the Parthenon and Greek tragedy, classical Greece brought us the historian Herodotus, the physician Hippokrates and the philosopher Socrates. It also brought us the political reforms that are ancient Greece's most enduring contribution to the modern world: the system known as demokratia, or rule by the people.

In 336 B.C., Alexander the Great became the leader of the Greek kingdom of Macedonia. By the time he died 13 years later, Alexander had built an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to India.

Hellenistic civilization (Greek civilization beyond classical Greeks) represents the zenith of Greek influence in the ancient world from 323 BCE to about 146 BCE (or arguably as late as 30 BCE).

アキーラさん散策②旧ユーゴ・マケドニア・スコピエ・オールドバジャールOld-Bazaar,Skopje,Macedonia

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オスマン朝時代の建物が残るオールドバザール。イスラム系寺院などがある。平成26年（2014年）7月に旧ユーゴスラビアの１国であるマケドニアの首都のスコピエを再訪。
ここはコソボ紛争でも話題になったコソボ自治州からわずか数十キロの距離に位置している。
通称マケドニアは、東ヨーロッパのバルカン半島に位置する共和国。前身はユーゴスラビア連邦の構成国の1つで、南はギリシャ、東はブルガリア、西はアルバニア、北はセルビアおよびコソボと、四方を外国に囲まれた内陸国である。
これら周りの国との関係は決して良好ではない。特にギリシャに関してはマケドニアという国名の問題で対立している。

マケドニア共和国は、地理的にはマケドニアと呼ばれてきた地域の北西部にあり、マケドニア共和国はマケドニア地域全体の約4割を占めている。残りの約5割はギリシャに、約1割はブルガリアに属している。また歴史上、マケドニア共和国の多数民族はマケドニア人と自称・他称されるが、彼らはスラヴ語の話し手で南スラヴ人の一派であり、ギリシャ系の言語を話していたと考えられる古代マケドニア王国の人々と直接の連続性はない。これらの理由から、ギリシャがマケドニアという国名を拒否し、同国との間で激しい国名論争（マケドニア呼称問題）が生じている。

憲法上の正式名称はマケドニア共和国であり、約125ヶ国はこの呼称を用いている一方、欧州連合や日本等はこれを認めず、国際連合に加盟したときの暫定呼称マケドニア旧ユーゴスラビア共和国を使用している
住民はマケドニア人が64.2%、アルバニア人が25.2%、トルコ人が3.8%、ロマ人が2.7%、セルビア人が1.8%、その他が2.3%である。
マケドニア人は5世紀から7世紀ごろにこの地に移り住んだスラヴ人の子孫であり、スラヴ系のマケドニア語を話す。マケドニア語はブルガリア語と極めて類似しており、ブルガリア人からはマケドニア人・マケドニア語はブルガリア人・ブルガリア語の一部であるとみなされている。マケドニア人の多くは自らをブルガリア人とは異なる独自の言語を持った独自の民族であると考えている
visited Skopje, the capital of one of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a country in July 2012. Here we are located at a distance of several tens of kilometers away from Kosovo became a topic in the Kosovo conflict.
Landlocked Macedonia, Republic is located in the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe. Formerly one of the member countries of Yugoslavia, Greece south east, Bulgaria, Albania west, north is a landlocked country surrounded by Serbia and Kosovo and abroad, on all sides.
Relations with countries around none of them are never good. The conflict in the country with respect to the problem of Greece called Macedonia in particular.

Located in the northwestern part of the region, which has been referred to as Macedonia is geographically, Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Macedonia which accounts for about 40% of the entire region of Macedonia. About 50% in the rest of Greece, about 10% belong to Bulgaria. People of ancient Macedonia that he is considered historical, ethnic majority of the Republic of Macedonia is referred to other, calling themselves Macedonians, they are a sect of Slavs Southern rapper Slavonic, and was speaking the language of the Greek-we also and there is no direct continuity. For these reasons, to deny the country of Macedonia Greece, there have been (a problem called Macedonia) dispute between the country's violent country

アキーラさん散策③旧ユーゴ・マケドニア・スコピエ・オールドバジャールOld-Bazaar,Skopje,Macedonia

国際ジャーナリスト＆旅行ジャーナリスト　大川原　明のホームページは下記

アメブロ（憂国の旅人アキーラ世界1周・日本１周旅行記のブログ）は下記をクリック


オスマン朝時代の建物が残るオールドバザール。イスラム系寺院などがある。平成26年（2014年）7月に旧ユーゴスラビアの１国であるマケドニアの首都のスコピエを再訪。
ここはコソボ紛争でも話題になったコソボ自治州からわずか数十キロの距離に位置している。
通称マケドニアは、東ヨーロッパのバルカン半島に位置する共和国。前身はユーゴスラビア連邦の構成国の1つで、南はギリシャ、東はブルガリア、西はアルバニア、北はセルビアおよびコソボと、四方を外国に囲まれた内陸国である。
これら周りの国との関係は決して良好ではない。特にギリシャに関してはマケドニアという国名の問題で対立している。

マケドニア共和国は、地理的にはマケドニアと呼ばれてきた地域の北西部にあり、マケドニア共和国はマケドニア地域全体の約4割を占めている。残りの約5割はギリシャに、約1割はブルガリアに属している。また歴史上、マケドニア共和国の多数民族はマケドニア人と自称・他称されるが、彼らはスラヴ語の話し手で南スラヴ人の一派であり、ギリシャ系の言語を話していたと考えられる古代マケドニア王国の人々と直接の連続性はない。これらの理由から、ギリシャがマケドニアという国名を拒否し、同国との間で激しい国名論争（マケドニア呼称問題）が生じている。

憲法上の正式名称はマケドニア共和国であり、約125ヶ国はこの呼称を用いている一方、欧州連合や日本等はこれを認めず、国際連合に加盟したときの暫定呼称マケドニア旧ユーゴスラビア共和国を使用している
住民はマケドニア人が64.2%、アルバニア人が25.2%、トルコ人が3.8%、ロマ人が2.7%、セルビア人が1.8%、その他が2.3%である。
マケドニア人は5世紀から7世紀ごろにこの地に移り住んだスラヴ人の子孫であり、スラヴ系のマケドニア語を話す。マケドニア語はブルガリア語と極めて類似しており、ブルガリア人からはマケドニア人・マケドニア語はブルガリア人・ブルガリア語の一部であるとみなされている。マケドニア人の多くは自らをブルガリア人とは異なる独自の言語を持った独自の民族であると考えている
visited Skopje, the capital of one of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a country in July 2012. Here we are located at a distance of several tens of kilometers away from Kosovo became a topic in the Kosovo conflict.
Landlocked Macedonia, Republic is located in the Balkan Peninsula in Eastern Europe. Formerly one of the member countries of Yugoslavia, Greece south east, Bulgaria, Albania west, north is a landlocked country surrounded by Serbia and Kosovo and abroad, on all sides.
Relations with countries around none of them are never good. The conflict in the country with respect to the problem of Greece called Macedonia in particular.

Located in the northwestern part of the region, which has been referred to as Macedonia is geographically, Republic of Macedonia, the Republic of Macedonia which accounts for about 40% of the entire region of Macedonia. About 50% in the rest of Greece, about 10% belong to Bulgaria. People of ancient Macedonia that he is considered historical, ethnic majority of the Republic of Macedonia is referred to other, calling themselves Macedonians, they are a sect of Slavs Southern rapper Slavonic, and was speaking the language of the Greek-we also and there is no direct continuity. For these reasons, to deny the country of Macedonia Greece, there have been (a problem called Macedonia) dispute between the country's violent country

Tourism in Greece - Best Tourist Attractions

Tourism in Greece - Best Tourist Attractions

Athens, Santorini, Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes, Crete and Zakynthos

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, historically also known as Hellas, is a country located in Southern and Southeast Europe, with a population of approximately 11 million as of 2016. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki.

Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring a large number of islands, of which 227 are inhabited. Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2,918 metres (9,573 ft). The country consists of nine geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands (including the Dodecanese and Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands.

Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilisation, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, as well as the Olympic Games. From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states, known as poleis (singular polis), which spanned the entire Mediterranean region and the Black Sea. Philip of Macedon united most of the Greek mainland in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the ancient world, spreading Greek culture and science from the eastern Mediterranean to India. Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century BC, becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, wherein Greek language and culture were dominant. Rooted in the first century A.D., the Greek Orthodox Church helped shape modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox World. Falling under Ottoman dominion in the mid-15th century, the modern nation state of Greece emerged in 1830 following a war of independence. Greece's rich historical legacy is reflected by its 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The sovereign state of Greece is a unitary parliamentary republic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy, a high quality of life, and a very high standard of living. A founding member of the United Nations, Greece was the tenth member to join the European Communities (precursor to the European Union) and has been part of the Eurozone since 2001. It is also a member of numerous other international institutions, including the Council of Europe, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). Greece's unique cultural heritage, large tourism industry, prominent shipping sector and geostrategic importance[a] classify it as a middle power. It is the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor.

Tourism has been a key element of the economic activity in the country and one of the country's most important sectors, contributing 18% of the gross domestic product. Greece welcomed over 28 million visitors in 2016, which is an increase from the 26.5 million tourists it welcomed in 2015 and the 19.5 million in 2009, and the 17.7 million tourists in 2007, making Greece one of the most visited countries in Europe in the recent years.

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