Berat (Albanian: Berat or Berati) is a town located in south-central Albania at 40°42′ N 19°57′ E.
It is the capital of both the District of Berat and the larger County of Berat.
In November 1944, the communist-controlled Anti-Fascist National Liberation Council of Albania declared in Berat that it was the provisional government of the country, signalling the beginning of the long dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.
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Berat ((The Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania) Albanian: Berat or Berati) is a town located in south-central (A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula) Albania at 40.71°N, 19.96°E. It has a population of around 45,500 people (2003 est).
It is the capital of both the (additional info and facts about District of Berat) District of Berat and the larger (additional info and facts about County of Berat) County of Berat.
The town is thought to be one of the oldest in Albania, with a settlement having existed there since at least the 6th century BC, when it was a fortress-settlement of the (A minor and almost extinct branch of the Indo-European languages; spoken along the Dalmatian coast) Illyrian Dasaretes tribe.
Berat (Albanian: Berat or Berati) is a town located in south_central Albania at 40.
Peshkopi (Albanian: Peshkopi or Peshkopia) is a city in northeast Albania, in the district and county of Dibër.
Shkodër (Albanian: Shkodër or Shkodra, Serbian Skadar, Latin Scutari, German Skutari) is a city located in North West Albania, in the District of Shkodër and it is the capital of the County of Shkodër.
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The County of Berat ((The Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania) Albanian: Qarku i Beratit) is one of the 12 (additional info and facts about counties) counties of (A republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula) Albania.
It consists of the districts (additional info and facts about Berat) Berat, (additional info and facts about Kuçovë) Kuçovë, and (additional info and facts about Skrapar) Skrapar and its capital is (additional info and facts about Berat) Berat.
The Congress of Vienna of 1815 only officially recognized Quedlinburg as a city and territory, not as a barony, county, principality or dukedom, because that is all it was.
Some of these noble titles were made up, that is, are make believe or fantasy, others are still owned by the original families, some have true histories, but are extinct and permanently dead, but what they all have in common is Boada has no right to sell them.
As it turns out this small territory was a lordship under the Duchy of Pommern and then later it was a county under the Grand Ducky of Mecklenburg/Schwerin and then a lordship again under the Grand Ducal control of Mecklenburg/Strelitz until 1918.
In any ways this most remote Church stands alone; it has kept a number of curious and archaic customs (such as the perpetual abstinence of the patriarch, etc.) that separate it from other Eastern Churches almost as much as from those of the West.
Athanasius made a considerable disturbance, excommunicated the hierarchy he found, and tried to reorganize this Church in communion with the Syrian patriarch.
He is also the civil head of his nation, although he has no berat from the sultan, and lives in a large palace at Bkerki in the Lebanon.
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