Arapaj
Arapaj is a village in the former municipality of Rrashbull, Durrës County, Albania.
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The ruins of the Paleochristian Basilica of Saint Michael in Arapaj | |
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Coordinates: 41°18′11″N 19°30′20″E | |
Country | Albania |
County | Durrës |
Municipality | Durrës |
Municipal unit | Rrashbull |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Durrës.[1] It is a southern suburb of Durrës, located near the Mediterranean coast, approximately 6 kilometres south of this city.
Arapaj is a noted archaeological site, containing the substantial Basilica of Saint Michael dedicated to Saint Michael, an early Palaeo-Christian church which is believed to back to the fifth or sixth century.[2][3] It has been declared a Cultural Monument of Albania because of its architectural significance.[4] A mosaic unearthed in the Basilica also demonstrates how engrained its culture was later on with the early Byzantine Empire.[5]
References
- "Law nr. 115/2014" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-06-21.
- Albania today, 1981, p.46
- "Shen Mehill Arapaj Basilica - holiday Albania". Tixik.com. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2010.
- "Religious buildings with the "Culture Monument" status". Republic of Albania National Committee for Cult. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2010.
- Winnifrith, Tom (1991). Perspectives on Albania. Warwick studies in the European humanities. Macmillan. ISBN 0-333-51282-0.
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