Koplik

Also known as Kopliku

Koplik (also known as Koplik i Poshtëm) is a town and former municipality in northwestern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform, it became a subdivision, and the seat of the municipality Malësi e Madhe. It was the seat of the former Malësi e Madhe District. The population at the 2011 census was 3,734. It is situated north of the city of Shkodër. As of June 2016, Koplik has been registered and administered as an international 'free economic trade zone' by the Albanian government.

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Settlement AL.type: mu
Settlement AL.official_name: Koplik
Settlement AL.image_skyline: Koplik,_view_04.jpg
Settlement AL.county: Shkodër
Settlement AL.municipality: Malësi e Madhe
Settlement AL.elevation: 62
Settlement AL.area_unit: 9.3
Settlement AL.population_as_of: 2011
Settlement AL.population_unit: 3734
Settlement AL.postal_code: 4301
Settlement AL.area_code: 0211

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Wikidata facts

Population: 3734
Elevation: 63
Image: Kopliku.jpg
Licence plate code: KP

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Commons category: Koplik
postal code: 4301

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== Name == The name occurs as Cupelnich around 1200 in the work of Presbyter Diocleas; Kupêlnik in 1348; Copenico in 1416; Chopilich in 1614 in the report of the Venetian writer Mariano Bolizza; Coppilico on the 1688 map of the Venetian cartographer Francesco Maria Coronelli; Coplico on the 1689 map of the Italian cartographer Giacomo Cantelli da Vignola; and as Copelico in the 1703 report of the Catholic Archbishop of Bar [Antivari], Vincentius Zmajevich.