Lezhë Castle

The Lezhë Castle is a castle dominating the city of Lezhë, northern Albania. Its highest point is. Lezhë Castle is at an elevation of. Lezhë Castle began as a Illyrian fortification. The earliest events where the name of Lissus appears to relate to the foundation of a Parian-Sicilian colony in the island of Pharos and the alliance of 385 B.C.E. between the Illyrian king Bardylis and Dionysius I the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse during 405 B.C.E. – 367 B.C.E. In this context Diodorus writes the following:
“He had already dispatched a colony to the Adriatic not many years previously and had founded the city known as Lissus”.