Has District

Has District (Albanian: Rrethi i Hasit) was one of the thirty-six districts of Albania (which were dissolved in 2000) that is now part of Kukës County, and one of the smallest districts of Albania. It had a population of 17,419[2] (2010 estimate), and an area of 393 km². It is in the north-east of the country, and its capital and only municipality was Krumë.[3]

Has District Rrethi i Hasit
District
Map showing the district within Albania
Country	Albania
Capital	Krumë
Population  (2010)[1]
• Total	15,000

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:

Has Municipality

• 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, but 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 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.

References:

1. "POPULLSIA SIPAS PREFEKTURAVE, 2001–2010". Albanian Institute of Statistics. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
2. "POPULLSIA SIPAS RRETHEVE, 2001-2010". Albanian Institute of Statistics. Archived from the original on 2012-03-03. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
3. "Administrative Divisions of Albania" (PDF). INSTAT. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2011.