Tirana
Proper noun
Meaning
A county of Albania.
A municipality of Albania.
The capital and largest city of Albania, located in the center of the country west of the mountain of Dajti on the plain of Tirana; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
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A failed assassination attempt was made on Victor Emmanuel III of Italy by a local resistance activist during a visit in Tirana.
After the end of communist rule in 1991, Tirana experienced its fastest population growth when people from rural areas moved to the capital for better economic opportunities.
Air pollution has become a pressing concern as the number of cars has increased to over 300,000 in the capital Tirana.
A protest was held in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tirana by the Party of Justice, Integration and Unity (PDIU) which called for the rights of the Cham population displaced forcefully from Greece at the end of WWII.
An interesting stat in the religious makeup of Tirana is the 15% (113,000 people) who preferred not to answer the survey question.
After the walkout, discontent mounted, and in June 1924 a peasant-backed insurgency had won control of Tirana.