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14-651: Temal is a former municipality in the Shkodër County , northwestern Albania . At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Vau i Dejës . The population at the 2011 census was 1,562. Martin Camaj , linguist and professor of Albanology at the University of Munich. This article about a specific location in Shkodër County , Albania, is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Shkod%C3%ABr County During

28-504: A first language. Other spoken languages were Italian (0.05%), Serbo-Croatian (0.01%), . By religious affiliation, 44.84% were Muslim , 0.07% were Bektashi , 47.19% were Catholics , 0.45% were Orthodox , 0.02% were Evangelists , 0.02% were other Christians , 0.31% were believers without denomination , 0.14% were Atheists and 0.01% followed other religions. 4.94% did not wish to answer and 2.02% did not state. Lezh%C3%AB County Lezhë County ( Albanian : Qarku i Lezhës )

42-511: Is limited to the counties of Kukës to the northeast and east, Lezhë to the southeast and south, the country of Montenegro in the north and the Adriatic Sea in the southwest. The county has a wide variety of topographical sets and natural landscapes. The Albanian Alps , which extends in the north of the county toward Montenegro, is a primarily mountainous region with a high terrain. The alps delineated several sedimentary basins such as

56-533: Is one of the 12 counties of Albania . The population as of 2021 was 120,678, in an area of 1,620 km². Its capital is the city Lezhë . Until 2000, Lezhë County was subdivided into three districts: Kurbin , Lezhë , and Mirditë . Since the 2015 local government reform, the county consists of the following 3 municipalities: Kurbin , Lezhë and Mirditë . Before 2015, it consisted of the following 21 municipalities: The municipalities consist of about 175 towns and villages in total. See Villages of Lezhë County for

70-669: The Bronze Age , the area was inhabited by various Illyrian tribes such as the Ardiaeis and Labeataes . Illyria was annexed by Rome in the second century BC, becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor the Byzantine Empire . Falling under Venetian and Ottoman dominion in the late Middle Ages , the modern nation state of Albania emerged in 1912 following its independence. The climate of

84-666: The Constitution of Albania , and the most widely professed religion in the county is Roman Catholicism and Islam . Shkodër is one of 12 counties of Albania , located in the west of the Northern Region . It lies between latitudes 42° N, and longitudes 20° E. The county area is 3,562 km (1,375 sq mi) and the second largest county by area in Albania and the largest in the Northern Region. It

98-515: The Mbishkodra basin in the center. The highest point in the county is Maja Jezercë at 2,694 m (8,839 ft) above the Adriatic in the northeast shared with Kukës County . The lowest spot is 0 m (0 ft) above the Adriatic , located in the southwest of the county. Due to the considerable variation in altitude, it makes for a wide range of climate types. The Adriatic Sea in

112-770: The county falls within the Dinaric Mountains mixed forests and Illyrian deciduous forests terrestrial ecoregions of the Palearctic Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest and Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub . Inside the county, there are a national park, a nature park and a protected landscape, which include the Theth National Park , Nikaj-Mërtur Regional Nature Park and the Buna River-Velipoja Protected Landscape . The northern bound of

126-610: The county forms a part of the European Green Belt , which serves as a retreat for endangered mammal and plant species. The county of Shkodër is the 6th most populous county in the Republic of Albania . The Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) estimated the population at 154,479 in 2023. As of the 2011 census , in terms of ethnicity, the county was 98.65% Albanian , 0.32% Egyptian , 0.18% Romani , 0.03% Montenegrin . By language, 99.77% people spoke Albanian as

140-504: The county is profoundly affected by the Adriatic Sea in the west and the Albanian Alps in the north. It experiences mostly mediterranean climate , while the north enjoys continental climate . The summers are predominantly hot and dry, the winters relatively mild, and falls and springs mainly unstable, both in terms of precipitation and temperatures. Heavy rainfall is extremely common in the county and has caused many floodings of

154-413: The county is the sixth most populous county in Albania, the second most populous county in the Northern Region . The county is ethnically a homogeneous county and mostly inhabited by Gheg Albanians . In addition, Egyptians , Montenegrins and Greeks also are present in the ethnic composition of the local population. The country has no official religion and freedom of religion is a right defined by

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168-640: The rivers and lakes. The county features notable diversity with the landscape ranging from the snow-capped Albanian Alps in the north to the warm regions of Shkodra Lake and Adriatic Sea in the south and southwest. Being a geological continuation of the Dinaric Alps , the Albanian Alps are the highest section and one of the most rugged mountains in Europe . While the Alps occupy the northern part of

182-486: The territory, the population is concentrated mostly on the Mbishkodra plain, where the largest city is to be found, the cultural and economic centre of Shkodër . The mountainous areas of the county is sparsely populated, where the population density falls. The largest lake of Southern and Southeastern Europe , the Lake Shkodër sprawls in the east and is shared with Montenegro . With more than 150,000 inhabitants,

196-698: The west and Albanian Alps in the north have a great influence to the climate of the county. Most of the county has a usually rainy and hot mediterranean climate as defined by the Köppen climate classification . Mean monthly temperature ranges between −2  °C (28  °F ) in January and 25 °C (77 °F) in August. The mean annual precipitation ranges between 1,800 millimetres (71 inches) and 300 millimetres (12 inches) depending on longitude and latitude and prevailing climate type. Phytogeographically ,

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