Has District


Has District was one of the thirty-six districts of Albania that is now part of Kukës County, and one of the smallest districts of Albania. It had a population of 17,419, and an area of 393 km². It is in the north-east of the country, and its capital and only municipality was Krumë.
Has District, besides the town of Krumë, comprised a number of villages which are well known for their help in 1999 during the Kosovo War against the Serbian Army, for the unprecedented hospitality given to the thousands of refugees from Kosovo. Hasi is located in the border of Albania and Kosovo. The ethnographic region of Has is much wider than the District of Has, because about half of this region is located in the territory of Kosovo, from the Albania-Kosovo border to the gates of the cities of Prizren and Gjakova. Hasi was the trade center of north Albania.
Year-by-year the population of Has has been falling dramatically. European studies show that the decline in the Has population is falling due to the lack of economy, so a huge number of people from this area are migrating to countries like the United Kingdom and the United States but mostly to Tirana, the capital of Albania.

Administrative divisions

The district consisted of the following municipalities:

Has Municipality