Durrës
Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
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Vorë is a small town where the roads between Tirana, Durrës and the airport meet.
Vorë is a small town where the roads between Tirana, Durrës and the airport meet.
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Albania's principal port and its oldest continuously inhabited city, founded as Epidamnos in 627 BC.
The capital: a fast-changing city of painted blocks, Ottoman survivals and new towers, under Mount Dajti.
Albania's principal airport, 17 km north-west of Tirana — for years the country's only functioning civil airport.
A compact hill castle between Tirana and the airport, with a view over the whole plain.
A city on Tirana's northern edge that grew almost entirely from internal migration after 1991.
A market town between Durrës and Tirana with a long-established Roma and Egyptian community.
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