Kavaje is a city and municipality in Albania Tirana County, in the Western Lowlands near the Adriatic coast, with a 2023 census population of 30,012 across roughly 199 square kilometers. Mentioned in Ottoman land registry archives from 1431 to 1432, it was formally incorporated as a municipality in 1867 and became an important industrial center during the 1960s under communist rule, later playing a role in Albania anti-communist movements of the late 1980s.
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Founding Year Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. GeoNames: Kavajë
GeoNames geonameid 3185211 (Kavajë), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Kavajë (Wikipedia)
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 41.25, 19.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 41.25, 19.75
41.25 19.75 Csa
4. GeoNames: Kavajë - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3185211, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3185211, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
41.18556 19.55694 P PPLA2 AL 50 10944418 3185212 30012 19 Europe/Tirane
Wikidata: Kavaje
Kavaje (Wikipedia)
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