Malzi
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Malzi Municipality is one of the fourteen rural municipalities of Kukës District
Kukës District
The District of Kukës is one of the thirty-six districts of Albania. It has a population 45,616 and area of 938 km². The district's only urban municipality is Kukës, which also is where the districts administrative headquarters are located...

 . The municipality consists of the following villages:
  • Shëmri
  • Shtanë
  • Petkaj
  • Megullë
  • Camë
  • Gdheshtë
  • Pistë
  • Va Spas
  • Shikaj
  • Dukagjin
  • Kalimash
  • Kryemadh


Etymology

The name of the region dates back to 1444 and is mentioned numerous times during the centuries. The most acceptable theory is that the region was named Malzi (English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 = Black Mountain) because of the Black Pined
European Black Pine
Pinus nigra, the European Black Pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across southern Mediterranean Europe from Spain to the Crimea, in Asia Minor and on Cyprus, and in the high mountains of the Maghreb in North Africa....

mountain forests of the region.
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