Lezhë Castle
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The Lezhë Castle (Template:Langx) is a castle dominating the city of Lezhë, northern Albania. Its highest point is Script error: No such module "convert".. Lezhë Castle is at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert"..[1] Lezhë Castle began as a Illyrian fortification. The earliest events where the name of Lissus appears to relate to the foundation of a Parian-Sicilian colony in the island of Pharos (modern Hvar) and the alliance of 385 B.C.E. between the Illyrian king Bardylis and Dionysius I the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse during 405 B.C.E. – 367 B.C.E. In this context Diodorus writes the following:
“He [Dionysius I] had already dispatched a colony to the Adriatic not many years previously and had founded the city known as Lissus” (Diodorus, XV, 13). [2]Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".[3]
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- ↑ Lezhë Castle Altitude and Location
- ↑ [1] It was rebuilt by the Venetians in the 1440s and the Ottomans in 1522. In the late Middle Ages, the castle belonged to the Dukagjini family. The two brothers Tanush Dukagjini and Progon Dukagjini (sons of Lekë I) through an agreement which preserved their trade rights and estates around the castle placed the city and the castle under Venetian control in 1393 as a means to defend it against Ottoman expansion. The Venetians formally ceded the castle to the Ottomans in 1506.
- ↑ Castle
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- Buildings and structures completed in 1440
- Buildings and structures completed in 1522
- Castles in Albania
- Illyrian architecture
- Buildings and structures in Lezhë
- 1522 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
- Tourist attractions in Lezhë County
- Archaeological sites in Albania