Butrint
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How it came to be
Butrint in southern Albania is the city that the Roman poet Virgil says was founded by Helenus, a son of King Priam of Troy. Traces of settlement go back to the 10th-8th centuries BC. By the 4th century BC it had a theatre, a sanctuary of Asclepius and an agora, and around 380 BC an outer wall 870 metres long enclosed the city.
In 44 BC Caesar named it a colony for veterans who had fought Pompey, and after the battle of Actium in 31 BC Augustus revived the plan. The city doubled in size and gained an aqueduct, baths and a forum. In the 6th century it became a bishopric and a baptistery with a large mosaic floor was built.
From the Middle Ages Butrint passed between the Angevins, Venice and the Ottomans. From 1928 to 1943 an Italian expedition led by Luigi Maria Ugolini excavated the site. Butrint was inscribed in 1992, was on the danger list from 1997 to 2005, and became a national park in 2000.
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