Lezhë Castle is at an elevation of 322 metres (1,056 ft).

[1] 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 (modern Hvar) 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.

“He [Dionysius I] had already dispatched a colony to the Adriatic not many years previously and had founded the city known as Lissus” (Diodorus, XV, 13).