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Albanopolis
41°28′31″N 19°46′35″E / 41.47528°N 19.77639°E
Albanopolis (Albanian: Albanopolis; Ancient Greek: Ἀλβανόπολις, romanized: Albanópolis) was a city of the Albanoi, an Illyrian tribe. Albanopolis has been located by various scholars at the modern-day village of Zgërdhesh or at Krujë. The ancient city may correspond with later mentions of the settlement called Arbanon and Albanon during the Middle Ages, although it is not certain this was the same place. The city appears in the literature in 150 AD, almost 300 years after Roman conquest of the region.
The city and its tribe gave their name to modern Albania.
The toponym Albanopolis is composed of "Albanoi", a tribe name, and "polis", a Greek word meaning "city, castle, fortification". Johann Georg von Hahn first noted that the suffix "polis" was probably added at a later date by other authors, as in some editions it is mentioned as "Albanos polis" or "Albanos". Ancient ethnic names are rarely found in combination with "polis".
The ethnonym Albanoi assumed a particular importance in the ethnogensis of the Albanians, as it became their endonym, under circumstances that are no longer recognizable.
The toponym Albanopolis has been found on a funeral inscription in Gorno Sonje, near the city of Skopje (ancient Scupi), present-day North Macedonia. It was discovered in 1931 by Nikola Vulić and its text was analyzed and published in 1982 by Borka Dragojević-Josifovska. The inscription in Latin reads "POSIS MESTYLU F[ILIUS] FL[AVIA] DELVS MVCATI F[ILIA] DOM[O] ALBANOP[OLI] IPSA DELVS". It is translated as "Posis Mestylu, son of Flavia, daughter of Delus Mucati, who comes from Albanopolis". It dates to the end of the 1st century or beginning of the 2nd century AD.
Ptolemy (100-170 AD) is the only author who mentions Albanopolis. He mentions it in the third book of Geographia as a city of a tribe he refers to as the Albanoi.
The first scholar to advance the idea that Zgërdhesh was the site of the ancient Albanopolis was Austrian diplomat Johann Georg von Hahn. Zgërdhesh was also visited during World War I by Camillo Praschniker, an Austrian archaeologist, but his visit was short and he did not have time to draw any conclusions. According to historian Selim Islami, Hahn's hypothesis is not conclusive, but may have merit, and deserves to be pursued in the future. Aurel Plasari finds Zgërdhesh as the most convincing location, and argues that the Albanoi were a people who lived in the region between Mat and Shkumbin.
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Albanopolis
41°28′31″N 19°46′35″E / 41.47528°N 19.77639°E
Albanopolis (Albanian: Albanopolis; Ancient Greek: Ἀλβανόπολις, romanized: Albanópolis) was a city of the Albanoi, an Illyrian tribe. Albanopolis has been located by various scholars at the modern-day village of Zgërdhesh or at Krujë. The ancient city may correspond with later mentions of the settlement called Arbanon and Albanon during the Middle Ages, although it is not certain this was the same place. The city appears in the literature in 150 AD, almost 300 years after Roman conquest of the region.
The city and its tribe gave their name to modern Albania.
The toponym Albanopolis is composed of "Albanoi", a tribe name, and "polis", a Greek word meaning "city, castle, fortification". Johann Georg von Hahn first noted that the suffix "polis" was probably added at a later date by other authors, as in some editions it is mentioned as "Albanos polis" or "Albanos". Ancient ethnic names are rarely found in combination with "polis".
The ethnonym Albanoi assumed a particular importance in the ethnogensis of the Albanians, as it became their endonym, under circumstances that are no longer recognizable.
The toponym Albanopolis has been found on a funeral inscription in Gorno Sonje, near the city of Skopje (ancient Scupi), present-day North Macedonia. It was discovered in 1931 by Nikola Vulić and its text was analyzed and published in 1982 by Borka Dragojević-Josifovska. The inscription in Latin reads "POSIS MESTYLU F[ILIUS] FL[AVIA] DELVS MVCATI F[ILIA] DOM[O] ALBANOP[OLI] IPSA DELVS". It is translated as "Posis Mestylu, son of Flavia, daughter of Delus Mucati, who comes from Albanopolis". It dates to the end of the 1st century or beginning of the 2nd century AD.
Ptolemy (100-170 AD) is the only author who mentions Albanopolis. He mentions it in the third book of Geographia as a city of a tribe he refers to as the Albanoi.
The first scholar to advance the idea that Zgërdhesh was the site of the ancient Albanopolis was Austrian diplomat Johann Georg von Hahn. Zgërdhesh was also visited during World War I by Camillo Praschniker, an Austrian archaeologist, but his visit was short and he did not have time to draw any conclusions. According to historian Selim Islami, Hahn's hypothesis is not conclusive, but may have merit, and deserves to be pursued in the future. Aurel Plasari finds Zgërdhesh as the most convincing location, and argues that the Albanoi were a people who lived in the region between Mat and Shkumbin.