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PMR638-12 Albania, Berat: Ottoman houses mounting the hillside give the town its pseudonym "town of a thousand windows". In the 6th century BC it was a Greek fortress-settlement of the Dassaretae tribe, later the Illyrian town of "Antipatrea", and then taken by the Romans in the 2nd century BC. Keywords: Shqiperia, mediaeval, picturesque, national heritage, historic town, Turkish houses, architecture

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PMR638-12
Upload Date: 2012-11-11 09:31:28
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Albania, Berat: Ottoman houses mounting the hillside give the town

its pseudonym "town of a thousand windows". In the 6th century BC it was a Greek fortress-settlement of the Dassaretae tribe, later the Illyrian town of "Antipatrea", and then taken by the Romans in the 2nd century BC.
Keywords: Shqiperia, mediaeval, picturesque, national heritage, historic town, Turkish houses, architecture