Pashaliman Naval Base is one of the two main bases of the Albanian Navy (the other is in Durrës).
Pashaliman became internationally known when, after the creation of the Warsaw Pact in 1955, of which Albania was a founding member, the Soviet Union stationed twelve of its submarines, known by NATO as the Whiskey class. Pashaliman was the only Soviet military base in the Mediterranean in the 1950s, and the Soviets invested considerable sums in expanding the base they leased.
After the end of the communist regime, the base fell into disrepair and was devastated in the so-called Lottery Uprising of 1997. It was then renovated by Turkey under an Albanian-Turkish agreement, which has since then also had the right to use it.
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