Oricum

Oricum is the name of an ancient harbor city of It located at the south of Vlorë, in Albania.

The city, from which the oldest foundations attested go back to the Life front century J-C, was set up on a headland which gave on the sea, at a distance of 42 kilometers of Apollonie, the most powerful city of the area at the time.

The city, making it possible to lock the Adriatic Sea, and close to the Italian shore, quickly constituted a military stake. Thus, Philippe V of Macedonia seized the city, then allied of Rome, at the time of the First War Macedonian in (-214). In January of the year -48, Jules César besieged the city which made it possible to supply the army of Pompée, before the Bataille of Dyrrachium (48 av. J. - C.).

Byzance installed a small military port, called Jericho, on the site of the antique quoted. This port was reinforced under the domination Othoman and famous Pasha Liman ( Port of the Pasha ) and was used as fulcrum at the time of Othoman incursions into the Pouilles (and the Othoman occupation of Brindisi in 1480. The base was then a station advanced on the Mediterranean for the Soviets, until the rupture between Albania of Enver Hoxha and the the USSR of Nikita Khrouchtchev in 1961 (episode describes by the writer Ismail Kadaré in the Winter of the Great Loneliness ).

The ancient site was redécouvert at the XIXe century by archeologists Western and visited by the Italian archeologist Luigi Maria Ugolini, then in excavation campaign to Buthrote. An ancient theater, of a capacity of 400 people was exhumed in 1958.

External references

A. Bace: Qendrat E will fortifikuara to you gjirit you Vlores antikitet. In: Monumentet, 5 (1975).
Dh. Budina: Germimet theatrin antik you Orikut. In: Studime Historike, 1 (1964).
Dh. Budina: Oricum in the light of the archaeological data. In: Jadranska obala U protohistoriji. Kulturni I etnicki problemi. Zagreb 1976.

Bonds

Olsi Lafe: Oricum

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