Kurbnesh

Kurbnesh is a village in the municipality of Mirditë, in Lezhë County, in central Albania, within the Selitë administrative unit. It was founded as a mining community sometime in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when mining and copper processing were being established as the main economic activity of Mirditë. Mining specialists from East Germany were hired to oversee the development of the local mining operations. In 1976 the British traveller Leslie Gardiner, in his book on travels in Albania, Romania and Bulgaria, noted that the settlement was dimly lit, with few street lamps. As of 2023 Kurbnesh had a population of 358 people, and the mountain Maja e Gurit Gjon can be seen from the village.