Dyrrhachium

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Greek colony Roman city ancient city

Dyrrhachium was an important ancient Greek and later Roman port city on the Adriatic coast, in the area of modern-day Durrës, Albania.

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All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Dyrrachium 4
Dyrrhachium canonical 4
Dyrrachion 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek colony ⓘ
Roman city ⓘ
ancient city ⓘ
coast Adriatic Sea ⓘ
connectedBy Via Egnatia ⓘ
connectedTo Byzantium ⓘ
Salonika ⓘ
surface form: Thessalonica
countryDuringClassicalPeriod Greek Antiquity ⓘ
surface form: Ancient Greece
countryDuringImperialPeriod Roman Empire ⓘ
foundedBy Corcyra ⓘ
Corinth ⓘ
Greek colonists ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalRemains Roman forum ⓘ
amphitheatre in Durrës ⓘ
city walls ⓘ
hasModernSuccessor Durrës ⓘ
hasNameVariant Dyrrhachium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Dyrrachion

Dyrrhachium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Dyrrachium

Dyrrhachium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Dyrrhachion
involvedInConflictBetween Julius Caesar ⓘ
Pompey the Great ⓘ
surface form: Pompey
knownFor important commercial port ⓘ
strategic military importance ⓘ
languageInAntiquity Ancient Greek ⓘ
Latin ⓘ
laterControlledBy Byzantine Empire ⓘ
Normans ⓘ
Ottoman Empire ⓘ
Republic of Venice ⓘ
surface form: Venetian Republic
locatedIn Adriatic coast ⓘ
Illyricum ⓘ
surface form: Illyria
locatedInPresentDay Albania ⓘ
Durrës ⓘ
originalName Epidamnos ⓘ
partOf Roman province of Epirus Nova ⓘ
Illyricum prefecture ⓘ
surface form: Roman province of Illyricum
region Balkans ⓘ
servedAs gateway to the Balkans ⓘ
major Adriatic port ⓘ
starting point of Via Egnatia ⓘ
siteOf Battle of Dyrrhachium ⓘ
surface form: Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)

Battle of Dyrrhachium ⓘ
surface form: Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC)
timePeriod Byzantine period ⓘ
Classical antiquity ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
Roman period ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Via Egnatia → startPoint → Dyrrhachium ⓘ
Via Egnatia → passesThrough → Dyrrhachium ⓘ
Durrës → ancientName → Dyrrhachium ⓘ
province of Macedonia → includedCity → Dyrrhachium ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dyrrachium
Dyrrhachium → hasNameVariant → Dyrrhachium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dyrrachium
Dyrrhachium → hasNameVariant → Dyrrhachium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dyrrhachion
Dyrrhachium → hasNameVariant → Dyrrhachium self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dyrrachion
Lychnidus → connectedTo → Dyrrhachium ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dyrrachium
Battle of Dyrrhachium → near → Dyrrhachium ⓘ
this entity surface form: city of Dyrrhachium
Anastasius I → birthPlace → Dyrrhachium ⓘ
this entity surface form: Dyrrachium
Battle of Dyrrhachium → location → Dyrrhachium ⓘ