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olpino (Russian: Колпино) is the name of several inhabited localities in Russia. Urban localitiesKolpino, Saint Petersburg, a municipal city in Kolpinsky District of the federal city of Saint PetersburgRural localitiesKolpino, Nevelsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Nevelsky District of Pskov Oblast Kolpino, Pechorsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Pechorsky District of Pskov Oblast Kolpino, Pustoshkinsky District, Pskov Oblast, a village in Pustoshkinsky District of Pskov Oblast Kolpino, Kardymovsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Pervomayskoye Rural Settlement of Kardymovsky District in Smolensk Oblast Kolpino, Roslavlsky District, Smolensk Oblast, a village in Bogdanovskoye Rural Settlement of Roslavlsky District in Smolensk Oblast Kolpino, Krasnokholmsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Likhachevskoye Rural Settlement of Krasnokholmsky District in Tver Oblast Kolpino, Penovsky District, Tver Oblast, a village in Voroshilovskoye Rural Settlement of Penovsky District in Tver Oblast Kolpino, Vologda Oblast, a village in Volodinsky Selsoviet of Babayevsky District in Vologda Oblast

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Krujë (definite Albanian form: Kruja; see also the etymology section) is a town and a municipality in north central Albania. Located between Mount Krujë and the Ishëm River, the city is only 20 km north from the capital of Albania, Tirana. Krujë was inhabited by the ancient Illyrian tribe of the Albani. In 1190 Krujë became the capital of the first Albanian state in the middle ages, the Principality of Arbër. Later it was the capital of the Kingdom of Albania, while in the early 15th century Krujë was conquered by the Ottoman Empire, but then recaptured in 1443 by Skanderbeg, leader of the League of Lezhë, who successfully defended it against three Ottoman sieges until his death in 1468. The Ottomans took control of the town after the fourth siege in 1478, and incorporated it in their territories.

A 1906 local revolt against the Ottoman Empire was followed by the 1912 Declaration of Independence of Albania. In the mid-1910s Krujë was one of the battlefields of the conflict between the short-lived Republic of Central Albania, founded by Essad Toptani, and the Principality of Albania. In 1914 Toptani managed to seize the town but during the same year it was reincorporated by Prênk Bibë Doda in the Principality of Albania. During World War II it was the centre of the activities of resistance leader Abaz Kupi. The museums of Krujë include the Skanderbeg Museum, located in the environs of the Krujë Castle, and the national ethnographic museum.

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