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Location:

  • Albania, Pasha-Limani
  • geo:40.31876,19.427942
  • Exact location

Period or year:

  • -5xx / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • visible

Identifiers:

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The city Oricum, said to have been founded by Euboeans (perhaps as an Eretrian emporium), was originally on an island, but already in ancient times it became connected to the mainland; it covered an area of 5 hectares, but archaeological remains are scarce. It was well situated for communication with Kerkyra, and was only 40 miles across the sea from Otranto, making it a convenient stopping point on the journey between Greece and Italy. Ancient sources (for instance, Herodotus) describe it as a limen, or harbor, but eventually it achieved the status of a polis, and from around 230 to 168 BC it issued its own coins with the legend ΩΡΙΚΙΩΝ ('of the Oricians') 1.

See also

References

  1. Wikipedia: Oricum


Nearby

Oricum Theater

Oricum Theater

Oricum, Gate of Caesar

Oricum, Gate of Caesar

Pier of port of Oricum

Pier of port of Oricum


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