Roman theatre at Butrint overlooking the Vivari Channel, Albania

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都市UNESCO注目

Butrint

Q: Butrintの年代はいつ頃ですか？

Butrintはおよそ紀元前800年–西暦1600年のものとされています。

800 紀元前 – 1600 西暦

A multi-layered coastal city on the Vivari Channel in southern Albania, with a Greek sanctuary, Roman theatre and baths, a baptistery with mosaic pavement, and Byzantine fortifications. UNESCO-listed as one of the Mediterranean’s densest archaeological palimpsests.

Classical Hellenistic Roman+3Greek Roman+1

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所在地

Albania

39.75°N · 20.02°E · ヨーロッパ

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UNESCO

Inscribed 1992 (extended 1999)

Theatre capacity

c. 2,500 seats (Hellenistic–Roman)

Classic excavator

Luigi Maria Ugolini, 1928–1939

Setting

Peninsula on the Vivari Channel opposite Corfu

“Butrint is Albania’s flagship Greco-Roman site and a rare place where Greek colony, Roman municipium, late antique bishopric, and Venetian outpost can be walked in one circuit.”

所在地

概要

Butrint occupies a low peninsula where Lake Butrint meets the Ionian Sea, opposite Corfu. Greek settlers founded a sanctuary of Asclepius by the 4th century BCE; the town appears in Vergil’s Aeneid as Buthrotum. Under Rome it became a colony under Augustus, with a theatre seating about 2,500, a forum, aqueducts, and lavish bath complexes. Late antique churches and a large baptistery with a circular mosaic of peacocks and vines mark Christian Butrint. Venetian and Ottoman walls crown the acropolis.

Modern excavation began with Luigi Maria Ugolini’s Italian mission in the 1920s–30s. After 1991 Albanian–British teams under the Butrint Foundation and Institute of Archaeology clarified the urban sequence, harbour siltation, and the medieval castle. Finds include Latin inscriptions, sculpture, and evidence for olive-oil and fish processing.

The landscape is as important as the monuments: a submerged Roman road, wetlands that once fed fisheries, and the triangular fortress that controlled the channel. Pair Butrint with Delphi for sanctuary urbanism and with Ostia Antica for a Roman harbour town that also silted into quiet ruin.

重要性

Butrint is Albania’s flagship Greco-Roman site and a rare place where Greek colony, Roman municipium, late antique bishopric, and Venetian outpost can be walked in one circuit. It anchors the Adriatic–Ionian corridor that linked Epirus to Italy—underrepresented in atlases that stop at Olympia or Pompeii.

証拠と解釈

確立された事実と議論が続く事柄を区別する。

確立された事実

Epigraphic and architectural evidence document a Greek Asclepieion, Augustan colonia, and late antique baptistery with mosaic pavement.

学術的推論

Harbour siltation and wetland expansion after late antiquity partly explain the city’s decline as a commercial port.

議論のある解釈

How far Vergil’s Buthrotum reflects local Trojan-foundation myths versus Augustan literary branding remains contested.

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Atlas Anatolia. (800). Butrint. Atlas Anatolia. https://atlasanatolia.com/ja/site/butrint

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出典

Eternal Butrint: A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Albania — Hodges, Richard (2006)
Butrint — UNESCO (1992)リンク

よくある質問

Butrintはどこにありますか？

ButrintはAlbaniaに位置しています。

Butrintの年代はいつ頃ですか？

Butrintはおよそ800 紀元前 – 1600 西暦のものとされています。

Butrintはどの文明に関連していますか？

ButrintはGreek, Roman, Byzantine文明に関連しています。

Butrintが重要な理由は何ですか？

Butrint is Albania’s flagship Greco-Roman site and a rare place where Greek colony, Roman municipium, late antique bishopric, and Venetian outpost can be walked in one circuit.

Butrintはユネスコ世界遺産ですか？

はい — Butrintはユネスコ世界遺産に登録されています。

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