Listed 2 sub titles with search on: Information about the place for destination: "ANTIPATRIA Ancient city ALBANIA".
At the W end of the gorge of the Osum river. The foundations of ancient fortifications are visible at the foot of a Turkish fort; the city was destroyed, by Rome in 200 B.C. (Livy 31.27).
N.G.L. Hammond, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
Antipatria or -ea, a town of Illyricum situated on the right bank of the Apsus, in a narrow pass. (Liv. xxxi. 27; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 361.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited July 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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