Vrina Plain, Butrint, Chaonia, Albania
View of part of the low-lying Vrina Plain, once a thriving suburb of Roman Butrint, with (left to right) Lake Butrint, Roman villa, Bronze Age fortification, Roman tomb, Aqueduct header tank, Roman villa and church, Butrint, Chaonia, Albania. Butrint was founded by the Greek Chaonian tribe and was a port throughout Hellenistic and Roman times, when it was known as Buthrotum. It was ruled by the Byzantines and the Venetians and finally abandoned in the Middle Ages. The ruins at Butrint were listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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13428702
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45107851
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13286px x 3581px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
