Albanopolis
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Albanopolis
For the Armenian city, see Albanopolis, Armenia.
Coordinates: 41°28′31″N 19°46′35″E / 41.47528°N 19.77639°E Albanopolis (Albanian: Albanopoli, Greek,"Ἀλβανόπολις")[1] was a city in ancient Roman Macedon specifically in Epirus Nova, the city of the Albanoi, an Illyrian tribe. The editors of the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World locate Albanopolis at the modern-day village of Zgërdhesh, near Krujë, Albania.[2][3] It is not certain if the ancient city corresponds with later mentions of it[4].The city appears at 150 AD almost 300 years after Roman conquest of the region.
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- ^ Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854)William Smith, LLD, Ed.,Ptolemy is the earliest writer in whose works the name of the Albanians has been distinctly recognised. He mentions (3.13.23) a tribe called ALBANI (Ἀλβανοί) and a town ALBANOPOLIS (Ἀλβανόπολις), in the region lying to the E. of the Ionian sea; and from the names of places with which Albanopolis is connected, it appears clearly to have been in the S. part of the Illyrian territory, and in modern Albania. There are no means of forming a conjecture how the name of this obscure tribe came to be extended to so considerable a nation.
- ^ Richard Talbert, Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, (ISBN 0-691-03169-X), Map 49 & notes.
- ^ "Albanopolis". http://albania.shqiperia.com/kat/m/shfaqart/aid/2285.html. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
- ^ Wilkes, J. J. The Illyrians, 1992,ISBN 0-631-19807-5.,page 279,"We cannot be certain that the Arbanon of Anna Comnena is the same as Albanopolis of the Albani, a place located on the map of Ptolemy"
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