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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Radio Plus Tre is a radio station based in Fier. One of its DJ is VINI DJ. Fieri is a city in southwest Albania, in the district and county of the same name. It is located at 40 43 N 19 33 E / 40.717 N 19.55 E / 40.717; 19.55, and has a population of 82,297 (2005). Fier is 8 km (5 mi) from the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Apollonia. The history of Fier is bound up with that of the oil, gas and bitumen deposits nearby. It was founded by the Vrioni family, beys of Berat, as a market town in the 18th century. The presence of asphalt and burning escapes of natural gas in the vicinity was recorded as early as the 1st century AD. Dioscorides, in Materia Medica, describes lumps of bitumen in the adjacent river Seman, and the concentrated pitch on the banks of the Vjose river, Strabo, writing in about A.D 17th states: On the territory of the people of Apolonia in Illlyria there is what is called a nymphaeum. It is a rock which emits fire. Below it are springs flowing with hot water and asphalt... the asphalt is dug out of a neighboring hill: the parts excavated are replaced by fresh earth, which in time is converted to asphalt. slm

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