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Jahja Ballhysa, signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence; Pietro Bianco, pirate from Durrës who lived in the 1450s; Bruti family, Medieval family who ruled in Durres; Abaz Efendi Çelkupa, signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence; Mustafa Hanxhiu, signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
The ruins of St. Anthony Church (Albanian: Kisha e Shën Ndojt) is located at Rodon Cape (alternatively known as Skanderbeg Cape) in Durrës County, is a Cultural Monument of Albania. It became a Cultural Monument in 1963. [ 1 ]
Durrës (/ ˈ d ʊr ə s / DUURR-əs, [8] [9] Albanian:; Albanian definite form: Durrësi) is the second-most-populous city of the Republic of Albania and seat of Durrës County and Durrës Municipality. It is one of Albania's oldest continuously inhabited cities, [10] with roughly 2,500 years of recorded history.
Durrës County (Albanian: Qarku i Durrësit), officially the County of Durrës (Albanian: Qarku i Durrësit), is a county in the Northern Region of the Republic of Albania.It is the smallest by area and the second most populous of the twelve counties, with 292,029 people within an area of 766 km 2 (296 sq mi). [2]
The first light navigational structure in Albania was built in the north-western side of Sazan Island in 1871. More than a decade later, in 1884, a second structure was erected in Shëngjin . Between the years from 1878 to 1890, maritime experts from the Austro-Hungarian Empire drafted the first hydrographic maps in the country which were ...
The Fatih Mosque (Albanian: Xhamia e Fatihut), also known alternately as Xhamia e vogël (transl. The Small Mosque) and Xhamia e vjetër (transl. The Old Mosque) is a Cultural Monument of Albania, located in Durrës.
In 2004, the Bank of Albania issued a coin celebrating Albanian antiquity, depicting the Beauty of Durrës and decorative elements from it on both the obverse and the reverse. This is a serrated white-metal coin with a face value of 50 Lekë, 24.25 millimetres (0.955 in) in diameter and weighing 5.50 grams, and some 200,000 of the coins were ...
On 7 April 1939, Albanian patriots fought the Italian invasion of Albania. In Durrës, a force of only 360 Albanians, mostly gendarmes and townspeople, led by Abaz Kupi , the commander of the gendarmerie in Durrës, and Mujo Ulqinaku , a marine official, tried to halt the Italian advance.