Antigonia (Chaonia)

[citation needed] It was founded in the 3rd century BC by Pyrrhus of Epirus, who named it after one of his wives, Antigone, daughter of Berenice I and step-daughter of Ptolemy I of Egypt.

The straits near Antigonia were mentioned in 230 BC, when a force of Illyrians under Scerdilaidas passed the city to join an invading army further south.

[8] A newly discovered church, on the floor of which there is a mosaic of Saint Christopher and a Greek emblem, testifies to the city's existence in the palaeo-Christian period.

The wall section terminates at the small early Christian church of triconch form, whose mosaic floor is decorated with a depiction of a strange illustration of a human with an animal head, resembling the Egyptian god Anubis or Saint Christopher.

[11] On the central hill the city centre was built on an orthogonal (Hippodamian) plan where an entire ancient street is exposed.