Selishtë

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Selishtë is a village and a former municipality in the Dibër County, northeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Dibër.{{cite web |url=https://www.vendime.al/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/137-2014.pdf |title=Law nr. 115/2014 |language=sq |page=6367|access-date=25 February 2022 }} The population at the 2011 census was 1,605.[http://www.instat.gov.al/media/195811/2__diber.pdf 2011 census results] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234141/http://www.instat.gov.al/media/195811/2__diber.pdf |date=2016-03-03 }} The toponym is Slavic (Selište).{{citation|author1=Kosta Mihailović|author2=Akademija nauka i umjetnosti Republike Srpske|title=Kosovo and Metohija: past, present, future : papers presented at the International Scholarly Meeting held at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, March 16-18, 2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W28tAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Serbian Academy of Science and Arts|quote=Slavic toponyms, such as Varos Dragos, Seliste}}

A rudimentary chrome mine functions in the village. It makes the headlines occasionally due to the occasional death of miners in accidents.

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