Bassania

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Bassania was an Illyrian town near the village of Bushat near Shkodra in what is now Albania . According to Livy , it was five Roman miles from Lissus, today's Lezha .

In 168 BC Bassania was besieged by King Genthios . The city was destroyed by the Romans in the first century AD.

In 2018, remains of the city were rediscovered by Polish archaeologists led by Piotr Dycze.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Livius XLIV 30
  2. ↑ C. Praschniker, A. Schober: Archaeological research in Albania and Montenegro . Alfred Hölder, Vienna, 1919, ISBN 978-5-87379-103-3 ( google.de [accessed on November 3, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Christina Ayele Djossa: Found: An Untouched 2,000-Year-Old City in Albania. Retrieved November 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ Polish archaeologists discover over 2000 years old lost city in Albania . In: Nauka w Polsce . ( pap.pl [accessed on November 3, 2018]).

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