Kaninë
Kaninë | |
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Kaninë | |
Coordinates: 40°26′23″N 19°31′8″E / 40.43972°N 19.51889°ECoordinates: 40°26′23″N 19°31′8″E / 40.43972°N 19.51889°E | |
Country | Albania |
County | Vlorë |
Municipality | Vlorë |
Municipal unit | Qendër Vlorë |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Kaninë is a settlement in the Vlorë County, southwestern Albania.[1] At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Vlorë.[2] It is home to the Kaninë Castle.
History[]
During the IV-III BC centuries the Kaninë Castle was built by the Illyrian tribes and was expanded by Justinian the Great in the 6th century. In the 11th–12th centuries, Kanina (Greek: τὰ Κάνινα) along with Jericho (Oricum) and Aulon, it formed a Byzantine province.[3] As the Provincia Jericho et Caninon, it appears in the imperial chrysobull by Alexios III Angelos.[3] In the 13th century it was part of the Despotate of Epirus, until Michael II Komnenos Doukas gave it as dowry to his daughter Helena Angelina Doukaina when she married King Manfred of Sicily in 1258.[3] It remained part of the Kingdom of Sicily thereafter, along with Aulon, until at least the 1330s.[4]
Notable people[]
References[]
- ^ "Location of Kaninë". Retrieved 22 April 2010.
- ^ "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-07-02.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Zakythinos 1941, p. 219.
- ^ Zakythinos 1941, pp. 219–220.
Sources[]
- Zakythinos, Dionysios (1941). "Μελέται περὶ τῆς διοικητικῆς διαιρέσεως καὶ τῆς ἐπαρχιακῆς διοικήσεως ἐν τῷ Βυζαντινῷ κράτει" [Studies on the administrative division and provincial administration in the Byzantine state]. Ἐπετηρίς Ἐταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν (in Greek). 17: 208–274. hdl:11615/19494.
- Populated places in Vlorë
- Villages in Vlorë County
- Illyrian Albania
- Cities in ancient Illyria
- Populated places of the Byzantine Empire
- Vlorë County geography stubs