Sopot

Sopot lies among the mountains of eastern Albania, in a country whose valleys have long joined the Adriatic coast to the interior of the Balkans. To the north, the Shkumbin valley carried the ancient Via Egnatia eastward from the coastal cities towards Lake Ohrid. The river also marks an old linguistic boundary between the Gheg and Tosk dialects of Albanian. Local tradition recalls resistance to the Ottoman invasion of this mountainous country.