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Place details
- Locality
- Orikum
- Region
- Shqipëria Jugore
- Country
- Shqipëria
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Oricum
- Ancient site.native_name
- Ὤρικος, ὬρικονOriku , Orikumi
- Ancient site.image
- The site of Orikos.jpg
- Ancient site.image_size
- 250px
- Ancient site.caption
- The site of ancient Orikos
- Ancient site.map_type
- Albania
- Ancient site.map_caption
- Location in Albania
- Ancient site.location
- Orikum, Vlorë County, Albania
- Ancient site.region
- Epirus or Illyria
- Ancient site.type
- harbor, settlement
- Ancient site.ownership
- Government of Albania
- Ancient site.designation1
- Cultural Monument of Albania
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.orikum.gov.al
- Image
- Oricum - Monumental Fontana 01.jpg
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- Oricum
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- Oricum
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17 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Pre-foundation period
- Archaic period
- Classical period
- Hellenistic period
- Roman period
- Ottoman period
- Mythology
- Religion
- Coinage
- Archaeological remains
- Church
- See also
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
thumb|Oricum plan
Oricum (; or Oricus; or Orikum) was a harbor on the Illyrian coast that developed in an Ancient Greek polis at the south end of the Bay of Vlorë on the southern Adriatic coast. It was located at the foot of the Akrokeraunian Mountains, the natural border between ancient Epirus and Illyria. Oricum later became an important Roman city between the provinces of Epirus Vetus and Epirus Nova in Macedonia. It is now an archaeological park of Albania, near modern Orikum, Vlorë County. Oricum holds such a strategic geographical position that the area has been in continuous usage as a naval base from antiquity to the present-days.
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