Čegrane

Čegrane (Macedonian: Чегране; Albanian: Çegran) is a village in the municipality of Gostivar, North Macedonia.

[1] At the beginning of the 19th century Čegrane was a predominantly Albanian village in Tetovo's Gostivarska Nahiya of the Ottoman Empire.

[3] During the Kosovo War, a massive makeshift camp was set up for ethnic Albanian refugees in Čegrane by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and local NGOs.

The area had been used as a rubbish dump, but the tiers that had cut into the steep hillside were filled with rows of thousands of tents.

[7] First hand reports describe that the Čegrane camp "held 57,000 displaced and emotionally shattered people.