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Durrës County

Durrës

Durrës is an Adriatic port city. Durrës is a bustling, lively port city. There is a busy city centre, historical sites, beaches and promenades. The city has a vibrant feel with friendly and helpful locals.
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  • Type: City with 131,000 residents
  • Description: city in Albania
  • Also known as: “Drac”, “Drach”, “Dures”, “Durësi”, “Durres”, “Durrsi”, “Durts”, and “Durz”
  • Historically known as: “Dyrrachium” and “Epidamnos”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roman Amphitheatre of Durrës and Niko Dovana Stadium.

Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Amphitheatre of Durrës is a Roman amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Durrës, . Construction began under the emperor Trajan in the 2nd century AD and it was destroyed twice by earthquakes in the 6th and 10th centuries.

Stadium
Photo: Sasha3307, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , officially Stadiumi "Niko Dovana", is a multi-use stadium located in Durrës, Albania. It is the home ground of Teuta. The capacity is 12,040 of which 4,340 seated, making it the fifth largest ground in the country.

Museum
Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Archaeological Museum of Durrës in Durrës, , established in 1951, is the largest archaeological museum in the country. The museum is located near the beach and north of the museum are the 6th-century Byzantine walls, constructed after the Visigoth invasion of 481.

Durrës

Latitude
41.3133° or 41° 18′ 48″ north
Longitude
19.4462° or 19° 26′ 46″ east
Population
131,000
IATA airport code
DUH
United Nations Location Code
AL DRZ
Open location code
8FHX8C7W+8F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1832288053
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3185728
Wiki­data ID
Q83285
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Durrës” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Durrës”
  • Albanian: “Durres”
  • Albanian: “Durrës”
  • Albanian: “Durrësi”
  • Albanian: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Amharic: “ዱርሬስ”
  • Arabic: “دراس”
  • Aragonese: “Dirrachio”
  • Aragonese: “Durazzo”
  • Aragonese: “Durraz”
  • Aragonese: “Durrazo”
  • Aragonese: “Durrës”
  • Aragonese: “Dyrrachion”
  • Aragonese: “Dyrrhachion”
  • Aragonese: “Epidamno”
  • Aragonese: “Epidamnos”
  • Armenian: “Դուրես”
  • Armenian: “Դուրրաս”
  • Asturian: “Durrës”
  • Azerbaijani: “Durres”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dürres”
  • Basque: “Durrës”
  • Bavarian: “Durrës”
  • Belarusian: “Дураца”
  • Belarusian: “Дурэс”
  • Bengali: “দুরেস”
  • Bengali: “দৌরেস”
  • Bosnian: “Drač”
  • Bosnian: “Durrës”
  • Breton: “Durrës”
  • Breton: “Epidamnos”
  • Bulgarian: “Durrës”
  • Bulgarian: “Durrësi”
  • Bulgarian: “Драч”
  • Bulgarian: “Дуръс”
  • Bulgarian: “Епидамн”
  • Burmese: “ဒူးရက်(စ်)မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Diraç”
  • Catalan: “Dirraqui”
  • Catalan: “Durazzo”
  • Catalan: “Durrakion”
  • Catalan: “Durrës”
  • Catalan: “Epidamne”
  • Cebuano: “Durrës”
  • Central Kurdish: “دورس”
  • Chechen: “Дуррес”
  • Chinese: “Durrës”
  • Chinese: “杜勒斯”
  • Chinese: “都拉斯”
  • Chuvash: “Дуррес”
  • Corsican: “Durazzu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Durrës”
  • Croatian: “Drač”
  • Croatian: “Durrës”
  • Czech: “Drač”
  • Czech: “Durazzo”
  • Czech: “Durrës”
  • Czech: “Dyrhachium”
  • Czech: “Dyrrhachion”
  • Czech: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Danish: “Durrës”
  • Danish: “Dyrrachium”
  • Dhivehi: “ދުރްރެސް”
  • Dutch: “Dıraç”
  • Dutch: “Durazzo”
  • Dutch: “Durrës”
  • Dutch: “Durresi”
  • Dutch: “Durrësi”
  • Dutch: “Dyrrachio”
  • Dutch: “Dyrrachium”
  • Dutch: “Dyrrhachion”
  • Dutch: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دراس”
  • Erzya: “Дуррес ош”
  • Erzya: “Дуррес”
  • Esperanto: “Duraso”
  • Esperanto: “Durrës”
  • Estonian: “Durres”
  • Estonian: “Durrës”
  • Estonian: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Extremaduran: “Durrës”
  • Fanti: “Durrës”
  • Faroese: “Durrës”
  • Finnish: “Durres”
  • Finnish: “Durrës”
  • Finnish: “Dyrrachium”
  • Finnish: “Dyrrakhion”
  • Finnish: “Dyrrakion”
  • Finnish: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Finnish: “Dyrrhakhion”
  • Finnish: “Dyrrhakion”
  • Finnish: “Epidamnos”
  • French: “Durres”
  • French: “Durrës”
  • French: “Durrësi”
  • French: “Dyrrachion”
  • French: “Dyrrachium”
  • French: “Dyrrhachium”
  • French: “Épidamne”
  • French: “Epidamnos”
  • Friulian: “Durrês”
  • Ga: “Durrës”
  • Gagauz: “Durrës”
  • Galician: “Durrës”
  • Gan Chinese: “都拉斯”
  • Georgian: “დურესი”
  • German: “Durres”
  • German: “Durrës”
  • German: “Durresi”
  • German: “Durrësi”
  • German: “Dyrrachion”
  • German: “Dyrrachium”
  • German: “Dyrrhachion”
  • German: “Dyrrhachium”
  • German: “Epidamnos”
  • German: “Epidamnus”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Durres”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Durrës”
  • Gothic: “𐌳𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐍃”
  • Greek: “Δυρράχειο”
  • Greek: “Δυρράχιο”
  • Gujarati: “દુર્રેસ”
  • Haitian: “Durrës”
  • Hausa: “Durres”
  • Hausa: “Durrës”
  • Hebrew: “דורס”
  • Hindi: “डुर्रेस”
  • Hindi: “दुर्रेस”
  • Hungarian: “Durrës”
  • Hungarian: “Durrësi”
  • Icelandic: “Durrës”
  • Ido: “Durrës”
  • Indonesian: “Durres”
  • Indonesian: “Durrës”
  • Interlingua: “Durres”
  • Interlingue: “Durrës”
  • Inuktitut: “ᑐᐊᕆᔅ”
  • Irish: “Durrës”
  • Italian: “Durazzo”
  • Italian: “Durres”
  • Italian: “Durrës”
  • Italian: “Dyrrachium”
  • Italian: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Italian: “Epidamno”
  • Italian: “Epidamnos”
  • Italian: “Epidanno”
  • Japanese: “エピダムノス”
  • Japanese: “デュラッツォ”
  • Japanese: “ドゥラス”
  • Japanese: “ドゥラッツォ”
  • Javanese: “Durrës”
  • Kabyle: “Durrës”
  • Kannada: “ಡುರ್ರೆಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ದುರ್ರೆಸ್”
  • Kirghiz: “Дуррес”
  • Kongo: “Durrës”
  • Korean: “두라초”
  • Korean: “두러스”
  • Kotava: “Durrës”
  • Kurdish: “Durrës”
  • Ladin: “Durrës”
  • Ladino: “Durrës”
  • Latgalian: “Durrēs”
  • Latin: “Durracium”
  • Latin: “Dyrachium”
  • Latin: “Dyrrachium”
  • Latin: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Latvian: “Dirrahija”
  • Latvian: “Duraco”
  • Latvian: “Durazzo”
  • Latvian: “Duresi”
  • Latvian: “Durrës”
  • Latvian: “Durresa”
  • Latvian: “Durresi”
  • Latvian: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Latvian: “Epidamna”
  • Latvian: “Epidamnos”
  • Ligurian: “Duasso”
  • Ligurian: “Duàsso”
  • Ligurian: “Durasso”
  • Ligurian: “Duràsso”
  • Lithuanian: “Dirachijus”
  • Lithuanian: “Duresas”
  • Lithuanian: “Duresis”
  • Lithuanian: “Durres”
  • Lithuanian: “Durresi”
  • Lithuanian: “Epidamnas”
  • Livvi: “Durres”
  • Lombard: “Durazz”
  • Low German: “Durrës”
  • Luxembourgish: “Durrës”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Durrës”
  • Macedonian: “Драч”
  • Malagasy: “Durrës”
  • Malay: “Durres”
  • Malay: “Durrës”
  • Malayalam: “ദുരെസ്”
  • Maltese: “Durres”
  • Maltese: “Durrës”
  • Manipuri: “ꯗꯨꯔꯔꯦꯁ”
  • Maori: “Durrës”
  • Marathi: “दुररेस”
  • Marathi: “दुर्रेस”
  • Mazanderani: “دوراسی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Durrës”
  • Mingrelian: “დურესი”
  • Mirandese: “Durrës”
  • Mongolian: “Дуррес”
  • Neapolitan: “Durazzo”
  • Northern Frisian: “Durrës”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Durras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Durres”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Durrës”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dyrrachium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Durrës”
  • Norwegian: “Durras”
  • Norwegian: “Durrës”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Duratz”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Durrës”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܕܘܪܣ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Dyrrhachium”
  • Oriya: “ଡୁରେସ୍”
  • Ossetian: “Дуррес”
  • Pampanga: “Durrës”
  • Persian: “دراج”
  • Persian: “دورس”
  • Picard: “Durrës”
  • Piemontese: “Durass”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Durrës”
  • Polish: “Dracz”
  • Polish: “Durazzo”
  • Polish: “Durrës”
  • Polish: “Durrësi”
  • Polish: “Dyrrachion”
  • Polish: “Dyrrachium”
  • Pontic: “Δυρράχιο”
  • Portuguese: “Dirráquio”
  • Portuguese: “Durazzo”
  • Portuguese: “Durres”
  • Portuguese: “Durrës”
  • Portuguese: “Dyrrachium”
  • Portuguese: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Portuguese: “Epidamnos”
  • Romanian: “Durres”
  • Romanian: “Durrës”
  • Romansh: “Durrës”
  • Russian: “Диррахий”
  • Russian: “Диррахиум”
  • Russian: “Дратч”
  • Russian: “Драч”
  • Russian: “Дураццо”
  • Russian: “Дуресси”
  • Russian: “Дуррес”
  • Russian: “Дурц”
  • Russian: “Эпидамн”
  • Santali: “ᱫᱩᱨᱮᱥ”
  • Sardinian: “Durrës”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Durrës (Stääd)”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Durrës”
  • Scots: “Durres”
  • Scots: “Durrës”
  • Scots: “Dyrrhachion”
  • Scots: “Epidamnos”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Durrës”
  • Serbian: “Durrës”
  • Serbian: “Драч”
  • Serbian: “Дуреш”
  • Serbian: “Дурс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dirahijum”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Drač”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Durazzo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Durrës”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dyrrachium”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Epidamno”
  • Sicilian: “Durazzu”
  • Silesian: “Durrësi”
  • Sinhala: “ඩරිස්”
  • Sinhala: “ඩුරස්, ඇල්බේනියාව”
  • Slovak: “Drač”
  • Slovak: “Durres”
  • Slovenian: “Drač”
  • Slovenian: “Durrës”
  • Southern Sotho: “Durrës”
  • Spanish: “Dirraquio”
  • Spanish: “Durazzo”
  • Spanish: “Durres”
  • Spanish: “Durrés”
  • Spanish: “Durrës”
  • Spanish: “Dürres”
  • Spanish: “Dyrrachium”
  • Spanish: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Spanish: “Epidamnos”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴷⵓⵔⵔⵉⵙ”
  • Swahili: “Durrës”
  • Swedish: “Dıraç”
  • Swedish: “Dratj”
  • Swedish: “Durres”
  • Swedish: “Durrës”
  • Swedish: “Dyrrachion”
  • Swedish: “Dyrrhachion”
  • Swedish: “Dyrrhachium”
  • Swedish: “Epidamnos”
  • Swiss German: “Durres”
  • Swiss German: “Durrës”
  • Sylheti: “ꠒꠥꠞꠦꠍ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠖꠥꠞꠦꠍ”
  • Tagalog: “Durrës”
  • Tagalog: “Wikipedia:Balangkas/Durrës”
  • Tahitian: “Durrës”
  • Talysh: “Durres”
  • Tamil: “டூர்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “துர்ரெஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Дуррес”
  • Tatar: “Дырач”
  • Telugu: “డుర్రెస్”
  • Telugu: “డుర్రేస్”
  • Thai: “ดูร์เรส”
  • Thai: “ดูร์เริส”
  • Tibetan: “ཌུར་རེས།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Durrës”
  • Tswana: “Durrës”
  • Tumbuka: “Durrës”
  • Turkish: “Dıraç”
  • Turkish: “Draç”
  • Turkmen: “Durrës”
  • Twi: “Durrës”
  • Ukrainian: “Дирахій”
  • Ukrainian: “Диррахій”
  • Ukrainian: “Дураццо”
  • Ukrainian: “Дуррес”
  • Urdu: “دراج”
  • Uzbek: “Durres”
  • Venetian: “Durazo”
  • Venetian: “Durazso”
  • Venetian: “Durazzo”
  • Veps: “Durres”
  • Vietnamese: “Durrës”
  • Vlaams: “Durrës”
  • Volapük: “Durrësi”
  • Walloon: “Durrës”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Durrës”
  • Welsh: “Durres”
  • Welsh: “Durrës”
  • Welsh: “Dürres”
  • Welsh: “Dyrrachium”
  • Western Armenian: “Դուրրես”
  • Western Frisian: “Durrës”
  • Western Panjabi: “دراس”
  • Western Panjabi: “دورس”
  • Wu Chinese: “都拉斯”
  • Yiddish: “דוררעס”
  • Yue Chinese: “都拉斯”
  • “Durazze”
  • “Durazzo”
  • “Durrës”
  • “Durrësi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Durrës”. Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.