Burrel (Albanian: Burrel or Burreli; alternate forms Burelė, Mat) is a city in North-West Albania (41.63 degrees North, 20.62 degrees East), 91 km from Tiranė. It is the centre of the District of Mat.
The number of inhabitants is 13,900 (2003; 21st rank in Albania).
Burrel used to be a miners' town but the mines are closed now. A ferrochrome plant is still working near Burrel.
During the Kosovo conflict there was a refugees' camp near Burrel for 2000 people.
The city used to be the site of one of the most terrible prisons of the communist regime where ordinary criminals and political prisoners such as Bashkim Shehu and Fatos Lubonja or the catholic priest Dom Simon Jubani were held. The political prisoners used to be condemned for attempts of overthrowing the state power or anti-communist propaganda and agitation for terms of at least 20 years. Often they were re-condemned while in prison. After the fall of the communist regime, the government of the Democrat Party closed the prison and made it a prison-museum. However in 1997, Sali Berisha readopted it as an active prison.
In certain species of plants, burr is a seed or dry fruit in which the seeds bear hooks or teeth which attach themselves to fur or clothing of passing animals or people.
In engineering, a burr refers to a deformation of metal wherin a raised edge forms on a metal part which has been machined.
Burr was born in Newark, New Jersey, to the Rev. Aaron Burr, Sr.
Burr is said to have carried the fallen Montgomery for a short distance during the retreat from Quebec.
Burr returned quietly to New York in 1812, intending to visit his daughter, but the ship she had been traveling on from South Carolina was lost at sea (either due to piracy or shipwreck), along with all of Burr's important papers.
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