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 | | Tirana (Albanian: Tiranë or Tirana) is the capital and largest city of Albania.Its population is estimated officially at 353,400 in 2003, though other estimates put the figure as high as 700,000. |
 | | Tirana is presently trying to develop a tourist industry, although this effort is hampered by the political instability in the region, owing to military conflicts during the 1990s in Albania and neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia. |
 | | Tirana was founded in 1614 by the Ottoman general Sulejman Pasha, who built a mosque, a bakery and a Turkish sauna, and named it "Tehran", as a tribute to his military victory at Tehran in Persia (now Iran). |
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