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Location information
Listed 5 sub titles with search on: History
for wider area of: "ALBANIA
Country
BALKANS"
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History (5)
Battles
Battle of Dyrrachium
Ceasar defeated by Pompey
- Appian, The Civil Wars (ed. Horace White)
Catastrophes of the place
By Roman 200 BC
By earthquake, 3rd c. AD
In the 3rd century A.D. the earthquakes changed the direction of the Aos river and brought the decline of Apollonia.
Foundation/Settlement of the place
7th c. B.C. Founded by Corcyraeans and Corinthians
After the Rhizonic Gulf comes the city of Lissus, and Acrolissus, and Epidamnus, founded by the Corcyraeans, which is now called Dyrrachium, like the peninsula on which it is situated (Strab. 7,5,8).
- Perseus: Strabo, Geography
Links
The History of Albania from Encyclopaedia of Islam
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