Prokletije
Prokletije or, sometimes called the Albanian Alps or the Accursed Mountains are a range in Northeastern Albania and northwestern Kosovo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Church of emacs, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,398 metres
- Description: mountain range on the western Balkan peninsula
- Also known as: “Accursed Mountains” and “Albanian Alps”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jezercë and Maja e Kokërhanës.
Jezercë
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jezercë is the highest peak in the Dinaric Alps, the second highest in Albania and the sixth highest in Southeast Europe, standing at 2,694 m above sea level.
Maja e Kokërhanës
Peak
The Accursed Mountains, also known as the Albanian Alps, is a mountain range in coastal Southeast Europe adjacent to the Adriatic Sea. It is the southernmost subrange of the 1,000-kilometre-long Dinaric Alps range, extending from northern Albania to western Kosovo and northeastern Montenegro.
Maja e Bojës
Peak
Maja e Bojës is a 2,461-metre-tall mountain near the center of the Accursed Mountains range in northern Albania near the border with Montenegro. It is just above the Buni Jezerce valley where Big lake of Buni Jezerce is located with five other lakes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Thethi and Rragam.
Thethi
Photo: Liridon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thethi is a village surrounded by Thethi National Park, up on Albanian Alps, in Northeastern Albania, in Shkodra District. A lot of tourists visit the mountain peaks of Thethi, Boga, Razma and Vermoshi, where they enjoy the dense forests, clear springs and limestone caves.
Prokletije
- Category: landform
- Location: Northeastern Albania, Albania, Balkans, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.44° or 42° 26′ 24″ northLongitude
19.812° or 19° 48′ 43″ eastElevation
2,398 metres (7,867 feet)Open location code
8FJXCRQ6+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 5596028922OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Venetian—“Prokletije” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Alpet Shqiptare”
- Albanian: “Bjeshkët e Nemuna”
- Arabic: “جبال الألب الألبانية”
- Armenian: “Պրոկլետիե”
- Azerbaijani: “Prokletie dağları”
- Basque: “Prokletije”
- Bengali: “প্রোক্লেতিয়ে”
- Bulgarian: “Албански Алпи”
- Bulgarian: “Проклетия”
- Catalan: “Alps Albanesos”
- Cebuano: “Prokletije”
- Chinese: “普羅克勒迪耶”
- Croatian: “Prokletije”
- Czech: “Prokletije”
- Danish: “Prokletije”
- Dutch: “Albanese Alpen”
- Finnish: “Albanian Alpit”
- Finnish: “Prokletije”
- French: “Prokletije”
- Georgian: “პროკლეტიე”
- German: “Albanische Alpen”
- German: “Prokletije”
- Greek: “Αλβανικές Άλπεις”
- Greek: “Προκλέτιγιε”
- Hebrew: “הרי פרוקלטיה”
- Hungarian: “Prokletije”
- Indonesian: “Prokletije”
- Italian: “Alpi Albanesi”
- Italian: “Prokletije”
- Japanese: “プロクレティイェ山脈”
- Japanese: “プロクレティエ山地”
- Korean: “프로클레티예산맥”
- Ladin: “Elpes Albanejes”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļalbānijas Alpi”
- Lithuanian: “Prokletijės kalnai”
- Macedonian: “Албански Алпи”
- Macedonian: “Проклетие”
- Macedonian: “Проклетије”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “De fordømte fjellene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Prokletije”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prokletije”
- Norwegian: “De fordømte fjellene”
- Norwegian: “Prokletije”
- Persian: “رشتهکوه آکرسید”
- Polish: “Góry Północnoalbańskie”
- Polish: “Góry Przeklęte”
- Portuguese: “Prokletija”
- Romanian: “Prokletije”
- Russian: “Проклетие”
- Serbian: “Проклетије”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Prokletije”
- Slovak: “Prokletije”
- Slovenian: “Prokletije”
- Spanish: “Montes Prokletije”
- Swahili: “Prokletije”
- Swedish: “Prokletije”
- Tatar: “Проклетие”
- Turkish: “Arnavutluk Alpleri”
- Turkish: “Prokletiye Dağları”
- Ukrainian: “Північно-Албанські Альпи”
- Ukrainian: “Проклетіє”
- Venetian: “Prokletije”
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