High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The ancient Greek city of Epidamnos (?????????) (Strabo Geography vi.316), later the Roman Dyrrachium (modern Durres, Albania, ca. 30 km W of Tirana) was founded in 627 BCE in Illyria by a group of colonists from Corinth and Corcyra (modern Corfu).Aristotle's Politics several times draws for examples on the internal government of Epidamnos, which was run as a tight oligarchy that appointed a ruling magistrate; tradesmen and craftsmen were excluded from power, until internal strife produced a more democratic government. The exiled oligarchs appealed to Corcyra while the democrats enlisted the help of Corinth, initiating a struggle between the two mother cities described by Thucydides as a cause of the Peloponnesian War. Individual trading with the local Illyrians was forbidden at Epidamnos: all traffic was through the authorized city agent or poletes. In the fourth century BCE the city-state was part of the kingdoms of Cassander and Pyrrhus....

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