🏛️ Dyrrhachium-Scampis
Ancient Roman port city on the Adriatic coast
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- Located in modern Durrës, Albania, on the Adriatic Sea
- Founded as a Greek colony (Epidamnus) in the 7th century BCE; later became the Roman port of Dyrrhachium
- Served as a major terminus of the Via Egnatia, Rome's principal road into the Balkans and beyond
- Now partially submerged due to coastal subsidence and sea-level changes
Dyrrhachium, known to the Romans and called Scampis in some periods, was one of the most strategically important ...