Mes, Albania Explained

Type:v
Official Name:Mes
County:Shkodër
Municipality:Shkodër
Municunit:Postribë
Coordinates:42.105°N 19.5697°W

Mes (pronounced as /sq/; Albanian: Mesi) is a village in the former municipality of Postribë in Shkodër County, Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Shkodër.[2]

Mesi Bridge

See main article: Mesi Bridge. The village is most famous for the Mesi Bridge over the river Kir, a designated Category I cultural monument of Albania. It is stone bridge constructed in 1768 by Mehmed Pasha Bushati during the Pashalik period in Ottoman Albania, and is the biggest of its kind in Albania still intact, measuring 108m in length.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Qarku Shkoder >> Komuna Postribe . Shoqata e Komunave të Shqipërisë . 10 November 2023. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316084523/http://www.aac-al.org/komuna_info.php?idk=2238&idr=19&idq=10&l=a. 16 March 2012 .
  2. Web site: Law nr. 115/2014. sq . 6374. 10 November 2023.
  3. Web site: Ura e Mesit, Shkodër . iett.al . 10 November 2023.