[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Pelion is generally placed in eastern Dassaretis very close to the historical border with Macedonia, however its precise location is uncertain and various theories have been proposed for the site of the settlement.
Under the Roman rule Pelion was placed in the autonomous administrative unit of Dassaretis, in Epirus Nova and in the Prefecture of Illyricum.
The earliest reference to the settlement is provided by Arrian (Anabasis) mentioning it as Ancient Greek: Πέλλιον, romanized: Pellion when describing the 335 BC Illyrian war of Alexander the Great against Cleitus son of Bardylis and Glaukias, king of the Taulantii.
[9] Stephanus of Byzantium (Ethnica) mentions it as Ancient Greek: Πήλιον, romanized: Pelion describing it as a city in Illyria.
4.4.3) among the refortified sites during the reign of Eastern Roman emperor Justinian, in the province Epirus Nova, again within the traditional boundaries of Illyria.
[21] In his Balkan campaign of 335 BC Alexander the Great received news that Illyrians were preparing to attack western Macedonia.
Macedonians briefly besieged Cleitus, however on the next day Glaukias and his forces arrived taking control of the heights that surrounded the plain of Pelion.
[25] Classical sources do not provide enough data to determine the precise location of the ancient site of Pelion,[26] and various placements have been proposed in modern scholarship.
[27][28][29][30] Various Albanian archaeologists and historians, notably Neritan Ceka, proposed present-day Selcë e Poshtme, where the monumental royal tombs of the 3rd century BC can be found.
Also a placement west or north of the Tsangon Pass is not much in agreement with Livy's accounts, hence excluding Papazoglou's and Ceka's solutions.
[36] On the other hand the precise location of Pelion is more difficult to establish, and although Hammond's interpretation, which places it in Goricë, is widely accepted, it remains uncertain.