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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 889 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BUTRINTO , a seaport and fortified See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

ALBANIA

Albania, See also:

TURKEY

Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:

IANNINA (i.e. " the city of St John "; Gr. Ioannina; Turk Yanid; also written Janina, Jannina, and, according to its Albanian pronunciation, Yanina)

Iannina; directly opposite the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of See also:

CORFU (anc. and mod. Gr. KEpKvpa or Kopiupa, Lat. Corcyra)

Corfu (Corcyra), and on a small stream which issues from See also:

Lake Vatzindro or Vivari, into the See also:

BAY

Bay of Butrinto, an inlet of the Adriatic See also:

Sea. Pop. (1900) about 2000. The town, which is situated about 2 M. inland, has a small See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, and was formerly the seat of an Orthodox See also:

bishop. In the neighbourhood are the ruins of the See also:

ancient See also:

BUTHROTUM

Buthrotum, from which the See also:

MODERN

modern town derives its name. The ruins consist of a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

wall, about a mile in circumference, and some remains of both later and Hellenic See also:

WORK

work. The legendary founder of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city was See also:

HELENUS

Helenus, son of See also:

PRIAM (Gr. IlpLauos)

Priam, and See also:

Virgil (Aen. iii. 291 sq.) tells how Helenus here established a new Trojan See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom. Hence the names New See also:

Troy and New See also:

PERGAMUM, or PERGAMTS (mod. Bergama)

Pergamum, applied to Buthrotum, and those of See also:

XANTHUS (mod. Gunuk)

Xanthus and Simois, given to two small streams in the neighbourhood. In the 1st See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C. Buthrotum became a Roman See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony, and derived some importance from its position near Corcyra, and on the See also:

main See also:

HIGHWAY

highway between Dyrrachium and See also:

AMBRACIA (more correctly AMPRACIA)

Ambracia. Under the See also:

EMPIRE

Empire, however, it was overshadowed by the development of Dyrrachium and See also:

APOLLONIA

The modern city belonged to the Venetians from the 14th century until 1797. It was then seized by the See also:

French, who in 1799 had to yield to the Russians and See also:

TURKS

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