Municipality of Vlora

Vlora was called Aulona in ancient times. It is mentioned by many foreign travelers and chroniclers, as one of the main port cities of South Illyria, which flourished after the fall of Apollonia and Orikus.
The name of Vlora is one of the few geographical names of the eastern coast of the Adriatic that has stood the test of time since ancient times. On the coast inhabited today by the Albanian population, this geographical name comes from an antiquity more or less close to those of Durrës, Shkodra, Lezha and Ulcinj. These geographical names would not have stood the test of time if the settlements named by them had not had a continuity of use for centuries... A good part of the population of the territories inhabited by the ancestors of the Albanians could resisted the process of romanization and then slavization, which involved most of the Balkan Peninsula", the academic Prof. underlines in his studies. Shaban Demiraj.