The Erzen is a river in western Albania

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

. Its source is in the mountains east of Tirana

Tirana

Tirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over...

, near the village Shëngjergj

Shëngjergj

Shëngjergj is a municipality in the Tirana District, Tirana County, central Albania....

. It flows west through Bërzhitë

Bërzhitë

Bërzhitë is a municipality in the Tirana District, Tirana County, central Albania....

, Petrelë, Vaqarr

Vaqarr

Vaqarr is a municipality in the Tirana District, Tirana County, central Albania....

, Ndroq

Ndroq

Ndroq is a municipality near Tirana, the capital of Albania. It is part of Tirana District and Tirana County. The village's population is estimated to be around 5,000 inhabitants....

, Shijak

Shijak

-Overview:Shijak is a Town in the country of Albania. Shijak is located within the administration of Durrës, 11 km away from the city of Durrës, and 38 km from the city of Tirana. The communes of Xhafzotaj, Gjepalaj, and Maminas border Shijak. The municipality has a surface area of 3.4...

 and Sukth. It flows into the Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...

 near Sukth, north of Durrës

Durrës

Durrës is the second largest city of Albania located on the central Albanian coast, about west of the capital Tirana. It is one of the most ancient and economically important cities of Albania. Durres is situated at one of the narrower points of the Adriatic Sea, opposite the Italian ports of Bari...

. Apparently, all twenty-two victims of the 1951 massacre

Massacre of 1951 in Albania

The Massacre of 1951 in Albania was the killing without trial of 22 intellectuals in the Socialist People's Republic of Albania on 26 February 1951, as ordered by Enver Hoxha, accused of bombing the Soviet Union's embassy in Tirana. The victims were 21 males and one female. One day earlier, another...

 were dumped into the river on Enver Hoxha

Enver Hoxha

Enver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...

's orders, only to later be found wrapped tightly in barbed tape.

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