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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 ...
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.
The Basilica of Saint Michael (Albanian: Bazilika e Shën Mëhillit) is a former basilica dedicated to Saint Michael, located in Arapaj, Durrës. Its ruins have been declared a Cultural Monument of Albania. [1] The Basilica of Saint Michael is an early Palaeo-Christian church which is believed to date to the 5th or 6th century.
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 ]
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.
The Amphitheatre of Durrës (Albanian: Amfiteatri i Durrësit; Latin: Amphitheatrum Dyrrhachinum) is a Roman amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Durrës, Albania. Construction began under the emperor Trajan [ citation needed ] in the 2nd century AD and it was destroyed twice by earthquakes in the 6th and 10th centuries. [ 1 ]
The Archaeological Museum of Durrës (Albanian: Muzeu Arkeologjik i Durrësit) in Durrës, Albania, established in 1951, is the largest archaeological museum in the country. [1] The museum is located near the beach and north of the museum are the 6th-century Byzantine walls, constructed after the Visigoth invasion of 481.
Epidamnos (Ancient Greek: Επίδαμνος, Albanian: Epidamn), later known as Dyrrachium (Latin: Dyrrhachium, Greek: Δυρράχιον, Albanian: Dyrrah) [1] [2] [3], was a prominent city on the Adriatic coast, located in modern-day Durrës, Albania.