{"id":12139,"date":"2021-11-10T18:32:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T18:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/the-strategist-who-revived-durres-in-the-medieval-darkness\/"},"modified":"2023-01-08T14:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T14:27:50","slug":"the-strategist-who-revived-durres-in-the-medieval-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/the-strategist-who-revived-durres-in-the-medieval-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"The strategist who revived Durres in the medieval darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&#8220;Culture in 1 minute&#8221; \/ Episode 10 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Early Middle Ages was not a good period for any European city, including Durres. They had faced the devastating consequences of the invasions of many peoples in the Balkans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Durres had become a simple city, but everything changed after the Longboards conquered Ravenna and the Byzantines were forced to move their navy to Durres and put Leo Ravduh in charge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The strategist who revived Durres in the medieval darkness - Episode #10\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0YtDKjDP8Aw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a native nobleman and ruled the city for at least 20 years, between the 9th and 10th centuries, marking the city\u2019s two most glorious decades in the Early Middle Ages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about him and the monuments he rebuilt or built in the city, watch the video where Durres history researcher Dorian Hatibi brings little-known details and facts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more follow the video posted at the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> _________ <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-text-color has-background\">Producer and narrator: Geri Emiri <br>Historical information: Dorian Hatibi <br>Video-Production: Arlind Veshti <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-background-color has-text-color has-background\">This video was developed with the support of the \u201cMedia for All\u201d project, funded by the UK Government. The views and opinions expressed on the video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the constitutions of the donors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Photo on the head:<\/strong> From the published video.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Reference:<\/strong> 1. Porfyrogjeneti, Konstandin: Burime tregimtare bizantine p\u0451r historin\u0451 e Shqip\u0451ris\u0451 shek. X-XV. Tiran\u0451. 1975; <br>2. Stephenson, Paul: Byzantium\u2019s Balkan Frontier A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900- 1204. Cambridge, 2004; <br>3. Ferluga, Jadran: Dra\u010d i dra\u010dka oblast pred kraj X i po\u010detkom XI veka; <br>4. Karaiskaj, Gjerak: Kalaja e Durr\u0451sit n\u0451 Mesjet\u0451. Monumentet, page 13. Tiran\u0451. 1977; <br>5. Fine John V.A.: The early medieval Balkans. University of Michigan, 1991.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Culture in 1 minute&#8221; \/ Episode 10 The Early Middle Ages was not a good period for any European city, including Durres. They had faced the devastating consequences of the invasions of many peoples in the Balkans. Durres had become a simple city, but everything changed after the Longboards conquered Ravenna and the Byzantines were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/the-strategist-who-revived-durres-in-the-medieval-darkness\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3899,3900,4301,4303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture-in-1-minute-en","category-reportage-en","category-gallery-en","category-videogallery-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"formatted_date":"10 November 2021","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12927,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions\/12927"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amfora.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}