Drin
The Drin or Drim, is a river in Southeastern Europe with two major tributaries – the White Drin and the Black Drin and two distributaries – one discharging into the Adriatic Sea, in the Gulf of Drin and the other into the Buna River.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Albania, Kosovo, and North Macedonia
- Also known as: “Drim”, “Drin i Madh”, and “Drin River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rozafa Castle and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque.
Rozafa Castle
Photo: Bdx, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rozafa Castle or Shkodër Castle is a castle near the city of Shkodër, in northwestern Albania. It rises imposingly on a rocky hill, 130 metres above sea level, surrounded by the Buna and Drin rivers.
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque
Ruins
Photo: Seeteufel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Mosque, also known as the St. Stephen's Cathedral of Shkodër in Rozafa, is a 13th-century former Roman Catholic cathedral and subsequently a former Islamic mosque, that was located within the Rozafa Castle near Shkodër, Albania.
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Good Counsel
Church
The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Counsel or Kisha e Zojës is a Roman Catholic shrine and Minor Basilica in Shkoder dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady of Good Counsel, the Patroness of the Republic of Albania.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bahçallëk and Bërdicë e Mesme.
Bërdicë e Mesme
Village
Bërdicë e Mesme is a settlement in the former Bërdicë municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Shkodër.
Bërdicë e Sipërme
Village
Bërdicë e Sipërme is a settlement in the former Bërdicë municipality, Shkodër County, northern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Shkodër.
Drin
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Shkodër County, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Drin from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Albanian to Venetian—“Drin” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Drini”
- Albanian: “Lumi Drin”
- Albanian: “Lumi i Drinit”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Δρίλων”
- Arabic: “نهر درين”
- Armenian: “Դրին”
- Asturian: “Ríu Drin”
- Azerbaijani: “Drin çayı”
- Basque: “Drin”
- Belarusian: “Дрын”
- Belarusian: “Рака Дрын”
- Bosnian: “Drim”
- Breton: “Drin”
- Bulgarian: “Дрим”
- Bulgarian: “Дрин”
- Catalan: “Drin Blanc”
- Catalan: “Drin”
- Catalan: “Riu Drin”
- Cebuano: “Lumi i Drinit”
- Chinese: “德林河”
- Chuvash: “Дрин”
- Croatian: “Drim”
- Czech: “Drin”
- Danish: “Drin (flod)”
- Danish: “Drin”
- Dutch: “Drin”
- Dutch: “Witte Drin”
- Dutch: “Zwarte Drin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر درين”
- Esperanto: “Drim”
- Esperanto: “Drin”
- Estonian: “Drin”
- Finnish: “Drin”
- French: “Drin”
- French: “Drini”
- French: “Grand Drin”
- Galician: “Río Drin”
- German: “Beli Drim”
- German: “Crn Drim”
- German: “Drim”
- German: “Drin”
- Greek: “Δρείνος”
- Greek: “Δρίλων”
- Greek: “Δρίνος”
- Hebrew: “דרין”
- Hungarian: “Drin”
- Irish: “Drin”
- Italian: “Drin Bianco”
- Italian: “Drin Nero”
- Italian: “Drin”
- Italian: “Drini”
- Japanese: “ドリニ川”
- Japanese: “ドリン川”
- Korean: “드린강”
- Ladin: “Drin”
- Latin: “Drilo”
- Latin: “Drinium”
- Latin: “Drinus”
- Latvian: “Drini”
- Lithuanian: “Drinas”
- Lithuanian: “Drinis”
- Macedonian: “Дрим”
- Malayalam: “ഡ്രിൻ നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Drin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Drin”
- Norwegian: “Drin”
- Persian: “درین”
- Polish: “Drin”
- Portuguese: “Rio Drin”
- Romanian: “Drim”
- Romanian: “Drin”
- Romanian: “Râul Drin”
- Russian: “Дрим”
- Russian: “Дрин”
- Serbian: “Drim”
- Serbian: “Drini”
- Serbian: “Дрим”
- Serbian: “Река Дрим”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Drim”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Reka Drim”
- Slovak: “Drin”
- Slovak: “Drini”
- Slovenian: “Drim”
- Slovenian: “Drin”
- South Azerbaijani: “درین چایی”
- Spanish: “Drin”
- Spanish: “Drini”
- Spanish: “Rio Drin”
- Spanish: “Río Drin”
- Swedish: “Drilon”
- Swedish: “Drini”
- Turkish: “Drin Nehri”
- Turkish: “Drin”
- Turkish: “Drina”
- Ukrainian: “Дрин”
- Venetian: “Fiume Drin”
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