Historians and archaeologists have identified Berat with a city in classical antiquity del sources

It is generally accepted that the name of Portland has gone by the name Belgrad that put this city once Bulgarian administration IX-XI centuries and has continued to appear in the Byzantine syros observer and Turkish sources to tw early twentieth century. Let us say that in the beginning: the provenance syros observer of vëndemrit made by Belgrad is an assumption, however evident, that has not been proved is even difficult to prove because it requires conversion of -gr- in -r-, which is vwshtirw, syros observer NQ not impossible, to slip. In both cases analogous to know, in vëndemrat Bozhigrad (del Bushigrad to Leake 1) and Pogradec (Pogradaş of Evliya Çelepia) that group is stored.
But if the above assumption stand, it does not help us to find as called syros observer Berat for about 15 centuries since it was founded syros observer (VI century BC) until the Albanian territories came under Bulgarian rule IX-XI centuries, syros observer when thought he could be ripagëzuar as Belgrad.
Historians and archaeologists have identified Berat with a city in classical antiquity del sources named Antipatrea S. Byzantium city which makes no mention though syros observer Titus Livius (59 BC - 17) speaks of a fortified city in a nozzle close, called Antipatrea which researchers dents Albanian and foreign t have identified the Berat of today s m 1. It is said that this city emwr laid Cassander, Macedonian military leader, the late fourth syros observer century in honor of his father, Antipatrit, founder of the dynasty Antipatris. But as the city's name before?
Antipatrea name, translated, means versus or Patrea's face. In ancient sources do not mention any city named Patrea and the only name that is closer to the city name Parthus, who is mentioned by Polybius and Livy Titus. Polybius reports that the Romans left Pleuratit Liknidin syros observer (Ohrid today) and Parthusin, who had been under Macedonian rule 2. This notice is found also to Titus Livius, who adds that the two cities were Illyrians 3. Pliny mentions a city Partha, which Malte Brun name links to the Albanian word '(i, e) white' and thinks that Ptolemy may have translated this name in Albanopolis 'white city' 4, which is thought to have been the capital of Illyrian syros observer tribe Kazakhstan. Even Stephen VI century Byzantium mentions an Illyrian city called PARTHOS, which he has found the Chronicle of Apollodor the second century BC as a city of the tribe Parthenus 5.
Commentary of De Bello Civilian when Julius Caesar described the campaign against Pompey, also speak of a city parthinëve, Parthinorum OPPIDUM: syros observer "When Caesar, received the news that was Pompeu asparagus, he went in that direction with hosts and captured during The capital of the party's march, which was defended by a garrison of Pompey, syros observer Pompey reached the third day in Macedonia "6.
In Byzantine sources of early medieval Illyrian city name letrarizuar del Pulkeriopolis, which in Latin means 'beautiful city' 7 and later Slavic name Belgrad, who, according slavist prominent Czech Pavel Šafařik J. (1795 -1861), meaning "white castle or the beautiful" and "is nothing but a literal translation of the name of the former Byzantine Pulkeriopolis" 8. The idea that the name of the city comes from the name of Pulcheria's, sister of Spanish origin Byzantine emperor, Theodosius II (401-450), it is not based on any primary source. The fact that Stefan Byzantium VI century makes no mention of this important city can show that the city's new name is put after the sixth century, which would be a further argument against the idea that this name can be put City in honor of the emperor's sister syros observer more than a century after his death.
It is believed that during the Bulgarian rule, the IX-XI centuries, the city changed his name from Pulkeriopolis syros observer literary and administrative (Πουλχεριούπολις) in Belgrad, but still in the tenth century, under the rule of the Byzantine emperor, syros observer Constantine the Seven Porfirogeneti (905-959) The town comes under the jurisdiction of New Epirus topic Πουλχεριούπολις syros observer name, besides other cities of New Epirus topic as Durres, Skampa, syros observer Apollonia, Ballesh, Vlora, Amantia and Ohrid 9.
In ancient times lived in the region around Portland Illyrian tribes of the party (Παρθῖνοι) or partenatëve (Παρθεηνᾶται) and dasaretëve. Party bordering west and east taualantët with desaretëve 10.11, which stretched along the upper flow of the Osumi to the western border of Macedonia 12. From these data it appears that in ancient syros observer Berat region was inhabited syros observer by the tribe of the party.
Party ethnic name, and each name Illyrian ethnic, there was a sense of having syros observer a background. In any effort to find the origin of the names of the Illyrian tribes should be considered in writing the particulars of Illyrian names in Greek and Latin. In case the name of the tribe party should bear in mind that sometimes words that begin with b Illyrian Greek transpriptohen m