Has District

{{Short description|Defunct administrative region in Albania}}

{{About|the defunct district in Albania|other uses|Has (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox settlement AL

| name = Has District

| other_name = Rrethi i Hasit

| type = d

| skyline =

| caption =

| map = Has District.svg

| coordinates = {{coord|42|11|N|20|23|E|display=it|scale:200000}}

| seat = Krumë

| dissolved = 2000

| population_total = 19,842

| population_as_of = 2001

| area_total_km2 = 374

}}

Has District ({{langx|sq|Rrethi i Hasit}}) was one of the 36 districts of Albania, which were dissolved in July 2000 and replaced by 12 counties. It had a population of 19,842 in 2001, and an area of {{cvt|374|km2}}.[http://statoids.com/yal.html Districts of Albania], statoids.com It is in the north-east of the country, and its capital was Krumë. The area of the former district is {{Linktext|coextensive}} with the present municipality of Has, which is part of Kukës County.

Has District, besides the town of Krumë, comprised a number of villages, {{citation needed span|with the entire area taking in about 78,000 refugees during the 1998–99 Kosovo War.|date=September 2010}} Has is located in the border of Albania and Kosovo. The ethnographic region of Has is much wider than Has District, as the region extends beyond the Albania-Kosovo border to the gates of the Kosovo cities of Prizren and Gjakova.

Administrative divisions

The district consisted of the following municipalities:{{cite web|url=http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/659991480409319302/pdf/110582-REVISED-PUBLIC-report-eng-complete.pdf |title=Portraits of poverty and inequality in Albania |publisher= World Bank Group|year=2016|pages=33-40}}

See also

Notes and references

References:

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{{Districts of Albania}}

Category:Districts of Albania

Category:Geography of Kukës County