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The Dorëzi Fortress is situated close to Dorëz village in
Albania Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...
, 5 km east of Pezë and 20 km southwest of
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. It is the oldest in the
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and dates to the 9th century BC.


History

The first archaeological expedition was performed in 1951. The ruins of the fortress are to be found in one of the highest hills of the
Krrabë Krrabë is a town and a former municipality in the Tirana County, central Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Tirana. The population as of the 2023 census is 2,023. History The village has be ...
, at about above sea level. It is thought that Dimale may have been situated in the Dorëzi Fortress. The surrounding wall is in its southern part, and is long from east to west. The fortress construction seems to have had three phases—the first with raw stones, the second with carved blocks placed with no mortar (
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) and the third with crushed stones and the use of mortar (4th–6th centuries AD). One can see the main entrance of the fortress. The presence of old vases that date to those centuries suggests that the site was inhabited until at least the 4th–6th centuries AD.


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Castles in Albania Buildings and structures in Tirana {{Albania-castle-stub Tourist attractions in Tirana Buildings and structures completed in the 9th century BC