Has District

Has District (Albanian: Rrethi i Hasit) was one of the thirty-six districts of Albania (which were dissolved in 2000). It had a population of 19,842 in 2001, and an area of 374 km² (one of the smallest districts of Albania).[1] It is in the north-east of the country, and its capital was Krumë. Its territory is now part of Kukës County, and is coterminous with the present municipality of Has.

Has District Rrethi i Hasit
Former district
Coordinates: 42°11′N 20°23′E
Country	Albania
Dissolved	2000
Seat	Krumë
Area
• Total	374 km^2 (144 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	19,842
• Density	53/km^2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Has District, besides the town of Krumë, comprised a number of villages which are well known for their help in 1999 during 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.^[a] 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 a huge number of people from this area are migrating to countries like the United Kingdom and the United States but mostly to Tirana, the capital of Albania.

Administrative divisions

The district consisted of the following municipalities:[2]

• Fajzë
• Gjinaj
• Golaj
• Krumë

See also

• Has of Prizren, region in Kosovo

Notes and references

Notes:

a. ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 98 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 113 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References:

1. Districts of Albania, statoids.com
2. "Portraits of poverty and inequality in Albania" (PDF). World Bank Group. 2016. pp. 33–40.