Interesting Facts about Albania - No. 7




 
       In 1995 a law was passed requiring citizens to pay taxes on traffic-lights in their home towns. The residents of Shkodra were taxed, just like all cities, but staged a protest.  Their reason?  Shkodra has no traffic lights.  It’s one of the oldest cities in Europe and the fifth largest in Albania. With a wonderful Old Town worth visiting, history buffs will love the restoration that’s happening.  Also, the Rozafa Fortress offers incredible views over the lake.


About Shkodra

     Shkodër or Shkodra is a city in northern Albania. It is written as Scodra in Latin, Scutari in Italian, İşkodra in Turkish, Скадар in Serbian and Skoutari in Greek.  Shkodra, it is one of the oldest cities in the country, founded in the 4th century B.C. as the center of the Labeat tribe of Illyrians known with the name Scodra. The earliest signs of human activity in the land of Shkodra can be traced back to the bronze age. The favorable conditions on the fertile plain, around the lake, have brought people here from antiquity. Artefacts and inscriptions, discovered in the Rozafa Castle are assumed to be the earliest examples of symbolic behaviour in humans in the city.
Later on Shkodra became secure as an Ottoman territory. It became the center of the sanjak and 1485 there were 27 Muslim and 70 Christian hearths although by the end of the next century there were more than 200 Muslim ones compared to the 27 Christians one respectively.

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