Colonia Iulia Augusta Dyrrachinorum

• Autores: Saimir Shpuza
• Localización: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Antiquité, ISSN 0223-5102, Vol. 124, Nº. 2, 2012
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The city of Dyrrachium is situated in the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea. Its proximity with Italy made possible very early relations between the two cities. Since 229 BC when Rome crossed the Adriatic for the first time, this city became the principal theatre of political, military and economical operations, where even the fate of Rome was played. In this article we try to present the impact that had the installation of the roman colony in the institutions, the society and the urbanization of Dyrrachium. Moreover, we will present a first study of the large territory of this colony. Parallel with the main imperial investments in the urban domain (amphitheatre, aqueduct, baths, library), the archaeological and epigraphic sources show also an important increasing number of rural sites in the territory of Dyrrachium.