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12 de oct. de 2017 · Lissus or Lissos was an ancient city located in the current city of Lezha on the northwestern Albanian coast. From the evidence on-site and classical sources, the city of Lissus must have been a heavily fortified city, serving more as a military base rather than as a civic or agricultural community.
La ciudad fue fundada alrededor del año 385 a.C. por Dionisio I de Siracusa, como una colonia griega y con el nombre de Lissos, como parte de una estrategia de Dionisio para asegurar las rutas comerciales siracusanas a lo largo del Adriático.
ALS Lissus is an Iliria -class patrol vessel of the Albanian Coast Guard. She is the third ship of her class, behind her sister ships Iliria and Oriku. Lisus was built in Albania in cooperation with the Netherlands.
The small Hellenistic sanctuary at Vau i Dejës (Northern Albania) was disco vered in only 2015. The small village is located in the northeast of the Zadrima plain which extends between the modern cities of Shkodra and Lezha, formerly the ancient poleis of Skodra and Lissos. The site which is situated on a hill is marked by a rugged rock surface.
- Andreas Oettel
Lezhë has a rich and diverse history dating back to the Neolithic period. The town’s name is believed to be derived from the Illyrian word “Lissus,” which means “place with water.”. The Illyrians were the dominant ethnic group in the Balkans before the Roman conquest in the 2nd century BC.
The Labeatae, Labeatai or Labeates (Ancient Greek: Λαβεᾶται; Latin: Labeatae) were an Illyrian people that lived on the Adriatic coast of southern Illyria, between modern Albania and Montenegro, around Lake Scodra (the ancient Lacus Labeatis).
The southernmost city of the Illyrian kingdom was Lissus (now Lezhë, Albania), a situation established since the First Illyrian War. He arrested two Roman legati, accusing them of not coming as emissaries but as spies. Gentius destroyed the cities of Apollonia and Epidamnos (Roman Dyrrachium, now Durrës, Albania), which were allied ...
