Lezhë is a city in the Republic of Albania and seat of Lezhë County and Lezhë Municipality. It is one of Albania's continuously inhabited cities, with roughly 2,400 years of recorded history.
Image: Lezhë, Albania – Skanderbeg Memorial 2016 02
Image: Biblioteka Lezhë Bibliotekat Publike panoramio
The Iron Age fortification was built on the Mal i Shëlbuemit (413 m high, right), called later Acrolissus; the proper city of Lissus was built on an adjacent hill (172 m high, left).
Lezhë Castle on the 172 m hill.
The Labeatae, Labeatai or Labeates were an Illyrian people that lived on the Adriatic coast of southern Illyria, between modern Albania and Montenegro, around Lake Scodra.
View of Lake Scodra, known as Lacus Labeatis in classical antiquity.
A coin of the Labeatan ruler Gentius.
A 2nd-century BC Labeatan coin from Scodra.