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Friday 24 January 2014

Saranda,Albania:

Saranda,Albania:


Saranda is a town in Albania located on the southern coast of the Ionian Sea . It is located on a mountainside.For the first name mentioned in Saranda (1412). Until the 4th century AD was under the Roman empire, and this is proved by the remains of the city walls, parts of which are located on the promenade of the bakery. from c. 4th to 6th century under the Byzantine Empire was Onhezmi. Saranda is a city in southwest Albania , located in the Ionian coast. Saranda name comes from an early Christian monastery dedicated to the Forty Saints ("Ágii Sarande" in Greek, "Santi Quaranta" in Italian).

Earlier (in antiquity where and is mentioned by several historians of that time as Strabo, Ptolemy, Cicero) is known in history by naming Onhezmi and this word has two meanings, according to the Latin language luglindore Onhezi was a wind which was blowing and facilitate travel and The second meaning is that according to legend was the father of Aeneas Onkizi) and much later, during the fascist Italian invasion of Albania in 1939 , was called Porto Eda in honor of the greatest daughter of Benito Mussolini . Onhezmi Antiquity was a port city one of the gates we can call such, which make connecting the Western Balkans European countries lindore.Nje strategic economic peak very favorable for the Illyrians.

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