Emerged as a permanent gate between east and west, Durres is the most ancient economic and historic centre of Albania. Considered a crossroad between Greeks, Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Slavs, Normans, Venetians, Albanians, Turks and Europeans, the modern times city is the descendant of a civilization dating thirty centuries ago. Archaeological discoveries dating from the 10th to the 7th centuries BC attest its inhabiting spanning long before the Greek colonization.
Source: www.durresport.al
