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Municipality: Kukës (Shqipëri) / Prizren

Morinë – Vërmicë border crossing

Also known as: Morina, Vërmica, Vrbnica, Morinë
Forecourt and control booths of the border crossing with mountains behind.
The Morina border crossing, direction Albania to Kosovo, May 2019.Photo: albinfo · 2019-05-21 · Domen publik (CC0)

The point marks the border facility on the Albanian side.

Related events

1 events
  1. 24 March 1999 – 9 June 1999The mass expulsion of Albanians, March–June 1999Evidence status: Judicially established. Established in a final court judgment. It covers only what the court found, not every later interpretation.

Photographs

Roofless ruined stone buildings among vegetation with a mountain behind.
Ruins near Morina in the White Drin valley on the Albania–Kosovo border, with Mount Pashtrik to the right. Taken in summer 2001 from a KFOR tank.Photo: Tilman Piesk (Watchduck) · 2001 · CC BY 3.0
Lake with green shores and the border road on the slope beyond.
The Vërmicë/Morina border area (Kosovo/Albania) in 2011, before the motorway was built.Photo: Albinfo · 2011-06 · CC BY 4.0