Elbasan castle ( sq, Kalaja e Elbasanit) is a 15th-century fortress in the city of

Elbasan Elbasan ( ; sq-definite, Elbasani ) is the fourth most populous city of Albania and seat of Elbasan County and Elbasan Municipality. It lies to the north of the river Shkumbin between the Skanderbeg Mountains and the Myzeqe Plain in central ...

Albania Albania ( ; sq, Shqipëri or ), or , also or . officially the Republic of Albania ( sq, Republika e Shqipërisë), is a country in Southeastern Europe. It is located on the Adriatic The Adriatic Sea () is a body of water separating the ...

. The castle was initially composed of 26

equidistant A point is said to be equidistant from a set of objects if the distances between that point and each object in the set are equal. In two-dimensional Euclidean geometry, the locus of points equidistant from two given (different) points is ...

high towers. Part of

Via Egnatia The Via Egnatia was a road constructed by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. It crossed Illyricum, Macedonia, and Thracia, running through territory that is now part of modern Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, and European Turkey as a continu ...

passes through the castle Foundations. The Elbasan Castle was built upon Roman and Byzantine Foundations and the original settlement was built in the 3rd century.There were periods of settlement in Elbasan castle. 3-4th century,5-6th century and finally 11-15th century and finally the ottoman era. Kalaja ne Elbasan

Sinan Pasha Koca Sinan Pasha ( tr, Koca Sinan Paşa, "Sinan the Great"; c. 1506 - 3 April 1596) was an Albanian-born Ottoman Grand Vizier, military figure, and statesman. From 1580 until his death he served five times as Grand Vizier. In a Ragusan docum ...

's Turkish bath is within the walls of the castle. It is a well-preserved attraction built in the early 19th century.

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