Lake Malik (Albanian: Liqeni I Maliqit, Macedonian: Маличко Езеро Malicko Ezero - meaning "small lake", Greek: Λίμνη Μαλίκη Límni Malíki) is an artificially drained lake in Albania.
Malik
Austro-Hungarian map from 1887 depicting Lake Malik on the bottom right side, south of lake Ohrid.
The government took the decision to drain the lake after 1939 to combat malaria.[1] The draining operation started in 1946[2] using convict labour[3] and it created new agricultural areas.[4]
References
^Francis William Carter (1993). David Turnock (ed.). Environmental problems in Eastern Europe. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN0415062292.
^Francis William Carter (1993). David Turnock (ed.). Environmental problems in Eastern Europe. Routledge. p. 29. ISBN0415062292.
^ Owen Pearson (2006). Albania in the Twentieth Century, A History. Vol. 3. I.B.Tauris. p. 188. ISBN1845111052.
^ IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (1991). World Conservation Monitoring Centre; IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas (eds.). Protected Areas of the World: Palaearctic. Vol. 2. IUCN Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas. p. 84.
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