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Durrës, Albania

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Durrës, Albania
The old architecture is 100% better…

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ImamTrump@reddit

There’s layers to this but sure. Old is better. I’ve been wondering, there was this tallest apartment in Durres, I think it was some 8 floors, but then a bigger building was built and the owner couldn’t take that so he built an additional 4-6 floors on top of the existing apartment. People had started to move out saying it’s one bad day from collapse. Did it fall or is it still standing?
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Equal_Consequence203@reddit

I think the building you're describing is in the Golem area, not in the city. And yes, it is still there, also it is more than 8 floors and really wide. Its really ugly as the two parts don't even match, the added structure is black while the original is white. As for Durres there is one kind of tall building which also happens to also be really ugly and sticks out. Its in the vollga area.
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ImamTrump@reddit

What can I search to find that building on golem
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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

But the other part is not modern architecture. It just shows how buildings without an urban plan are intertwined in an ancient city.
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Savings_Dragonfly806@reddit

You just perfectly described Athens.
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firebaallchich@reddit

Yeah most of cities especially in balkans are having this problem not just athens
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cristi_nebunu@reddit

why is raining a's over durres?
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mob74@reddit

A for Albania ✌🏿
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TheGringoLife@reddit

It’s alamy rain!
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Blood_Prince95@reddit

Are there any building or monuments left from the medieval or ancient eras?
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d2mensions@reddit (OP)

not a lot, Durrës was stuck by an earthquake in 1920s and the government of Albania decided to demolish mmost of the city buildings. There used to be a old church (probably Venetian) but it was demolished during communism. whats left are a 19 century catholic church, a ottoman mosque, a small hammam, and a small building tha used to be a cistern. but there are other structures, the byzantine walls, the venetian tower, the Byzantine forum, the amphitheater, roman baths, etc. The city is rich in archeology
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Inside-Associate-729@reddit

I was there recently and was very disappointed that the city’s archaeological museum seemed permanently closed. I loved to see all the byzantine/venetian columns and blocks that surrounded it, but would have loved to check out the museum itself. Any idea when/if it will ever reopen?
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Blood_Prince95@reddit

Thank you for the information.
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Mucklord1453@reddit

This was an extreemly important Greek city in medivial times, as it controlled the road from Constantinople to the Adriatic.
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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

When and where greeks of that zone went and where its documented this miggration?!
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Mucklord1453@reddit

You’d have to read a book on late Byzantine history and history of Despotate of Epirus
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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

Medieval Adriatic port cities were very mixed. During medieval period greeks were minority around 15% in Dyrrhacium
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shortEverything_@reddit

Is Greek even the correct term when in fact Byzantine Greeks called themselves Romans 
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Mucklord1453@reddit

mmhmm, and who where the other 85 percent? "albanians"? You do know in those days Albanians were a rustic mountain people.
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PlayfulMountain6@reddit

Durrës was surrounded by Albanian lands throughout the Middle Ages. Byzantine sources themselves mention the Albanians (Arbanitai) in the region, and by the 13th–15th centuries the surrounding population was overwhelmingly Albanian. The local population and hinterland that sustained the city were clearly Albanian. Medieval Durrës sat in the middle of Albanian territory. Greek or Venetian elites might have run administration and trade, but the population around and increasingly inside the city was predominantly Albanian.
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TheGringoLife@reddit

“Thessaloniki was a very important Ottoman city in medieval times”. What a ragebaiter
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ThickCaterpillar9867@reddit

Despotate of Epirus ,Despotate of Arta were not Greek ,I know you like to claim anything,yesterday I encountered a Greek dude claiming Constantine the Great is Greek ,is kinda silly
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Warm_Interaction8176@reddit

The last time the southern balkans had urban planning was the Byzantine empire apparently lol. So many cities down there look absolutely ridiculous.  At least some northern Balkans had the privilege of being under the austro-hungarians hahah
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tkchrist@reddit

Sadly... yes
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Ujemegaz@reddit

The only old architecture in the picture is the BKT building, and it was build by Italians in the 1920s. 
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Efficient_Donkey5228@reddit

Also the mosque is build in 1931.
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Ujemegaz@reddit

It was built in the 1990s implementing the project of Italians of the 1930s. 
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d2mensions@reddit (OP)

no, it was build in the 30s, then it was converted during communism, and then it was rebuilt in the 90s.
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Ujemegaz@reddit

E paskan pas modifikuar komunistet. 
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Repulsive_Work_226@reddit

vısıted some time ago. beautiful town.
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UzayK@reddit

reminds me of izmir for some reason. Beatiful place
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Unable-Stay-6478@reddit

What does that flair suppose to represent?
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