Apollonia (Illyria)
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Apollonia was an Ancient Greek trade colony which developed into an independent polis, and later a Roman city, in southern Illyria. It was located on the right bank of the Aoös/Vjosë river, approximat
The Monument of Agonothetes, built in the 2nd century BC and used as the municipal council building in the Roman era
A 4th-3rd century BC silver stater from Apollonia bearing the inscription ΑΠΟΛ.
Apollonia was strategically located at the beginning of one of the two starting branches of the Via Egnatia in Illyria. Retracing a prehistoric trade route that linked the eastern Adriatic coast with eastern Thrace, the road permitted overland travel elsewhere in the region, and it was the principal land route from Rome to the east.
Athena of the Vescovali-Arezzo type from the 2nd century AD
Fier County
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Fier County, officially the County of Fier, is a county in the Southern Region of the Republic of Albania. It is the eighth largest by area and the third most populous of the twelve counties, with abo
Apollonia (Illyria)
…was located on the right bank of the Aoös/Vjosë river, approximately 10 km from the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Its ruins are situated in the county of Fier, close to the village of Pojan, in Albania. Apollonia was perhaps the most important of the several classical towns of the same name. It was founded…
Vjosa Valley