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"Dyrrhachium (Durrës)" as a book category denotes works that focus on the Adriatic port city known in antiquity as Dyrrhachium and today as Durrës, treating it as the central subject or setting across time. It includes scholarly histories and archaeological reports about its Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Venetian and Ottoman phases; military and naval studies (for example the 1081 Battle of Dyrrhachium and other campaigns); travel writing, guidebooks and photographic monographs that capture its coastline, ruins and urban life; historical and contemporary fiction and memoirs that use the city’s multicultural, maritime and borderland character as a narrative engine; and interdisciplinary examinations of trade, migration, religion and cultural contact in the western Balkans. Recurring themes are port-city cosmopolitanism, strategic geopolitics, layers of material culture, identity and language contact (Illyrian, Greek, Latin, Slavic, Italian, Albanian), and the tensions between preservation and modern development. This category suits readers interested in Mediterranean history, Balkan studies, urban archaeology, seafaring and layered place-based storytelling.

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