Phoenice
Phoenice or Phoenike was an ancient Greek city in Epirus and capital of the Chaonians. It is located high on an almost impregnable hill commanding the fertile valley below and near the modern town of the same name, Finiq, in southern Albania.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Giuseppe.lepore4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Giuseppe.lepore4, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St. Nicholas Monastary Church.
St. Nicholas Monastary Church
Church
Photo: Decius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Nicholas Monastery Church is the katholikon of the abandoned Orthodox monastery of Saint George in Mesopotam, Vlorë County, Albania. St. Nicholas Monastary Church is situated 4 km east of Phoenice.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Finiq and Karahaxhë.
Finiq
Village
Finiq is a settlement, considered a town or village, and municipality in Vlorë County, in southern Albania located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the Greek border.
Karahaxhë
Village
Karahaxhë is a small village in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality of Finiq.
Bamatat
Village
Bamatat is a populated place in the Vlorë County of Albania. It is part of the municipality of Delvinë. The village is inhabited by Muslim Albanians. Bamatat is situated 3 km north of Phoenice.
Phoenice
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city and archaeological site in Albania
- Categories: Ancient Greek archaeological site, polis, ancient city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Komuna e Finiqit, Bashkia Finiq, Vlorë County, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Spanish—“Phoenice” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Finiqi”
- Albanian: “Foenika”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Φοινίκη”
- Bulgarian: “Фойника”
- Bulgarian: “Фойнике”
- Catalan: “Fenice”
- Danish: “Fønike”
- Dutch: “Phoenice”
- French: “Phœnicè”
- German: “Phoinike”
- Greek: “αρχαία Φοινίκη”
- Greek: “Φοινίκη”
- Hungarian: “Phoiniké”
- Indonesian: “Foinike”
- Italian: “Fenice”
- Japanese: “フォイニケ”
- Korean: “포이니케”
- Latin: “Phoenice”
- Macedonian: “Фојника”
- Portuguese: “Fenice”
- Russian: “Финика”
- Russian: “Фойника”
- Slovenian: “Fenike”
- Spanish: “Fenice”
- Spanish: “Fénice”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Phoenice”. Photo: Giuseppe.lepore4, CC BY-SA 3.0.