Every entry
The register
Twenty-nine entries in eight sections. Every one is a named place, located, dated by period rather than year, and described as built fabric.
| Key | Entry | Where | Period | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.1 | The Strait of Otranto | Cape Otranto to Sazan | Prehistory onward | The Strait |
| A.2 | The crossing | Brindisi · Bari · Durrës | Roman to modern | The Strait |
| A.3 | Two shores, one weather | Salento and the Ceraunians | All periods | The Strait |
| A.4 | What the water carried | Both shores | Antiquity to the modern era | The Strait |
| B.1 | Butrint | Vivari channel, Sarandë | Greek, Roman, Venetian | The Ancient Shore |
| B.2 | Apollonia | Above the Vjosa, Fier | Greek and Roman | The Ancient Shore |
| B.3 | The Durrës amphitheatre | Durrës, the old town | Roman, later Byzantine | The Ancient Shore |
| B.4 | Mosaic floors | Butrint, Durrës, Apollonia | Hellenistic to late antique | The Ancient Shore |
| C.1 | The road east | Durrës to Byzantium | Roman, from the 2nd century BCE | The Via Egnatia |
| C.2 | Stations and distance | The Shkumbin corridor | Roman | The Via Egnatia |
| C.3 | What a road does to a town | Elbasan and the line east | Roman to Ottoman | The Via Egnatia |
| D.1 | Porto Palermo | Bay of Himarë | Ottoman, on earlier work | Towers of the Coast |
| D.2 | Bashtovë | Shkumbin plain, Kavajë | Venetian, fifteenth century | Towers of the Coast |
| D.3 | Rozafa | Above the Buna, Shkodër | Illyrian, Venetian, Ottoman | Towers of the Coast |
| D.4 | Why towers here | The Ionian and Adriatic shore | Medieval to early modern | Towers of the Coast |
| E.1 | Gjirokastër | Drino valley | Ottoman, seventeenth century onward | Bazaar Towns |
| E.2 | Berat | Osum gorge | Byzantine and Ottoman | Bazaar Towns |
| E.3 | Kruja | Mountain shelf above the plain | Ottoman, on a fifteenth-century site | Bazaar Towns |
| E.4 | The Ottoman bazaar | Krujë, Gjirokastër, Berat | Ottoman | Bazaar Towns |
| F.1 | The kulla | The northern valleys | Seventeenth to early twentieth century | Stone Houses of the North |
| F.2 | Roofs of slate | Gjirokastër and the south | Ottoman to modern | Stone Houses of the North |
| F.3 | The valley and the house | Shala and Valbona | Pre-modern to present | Stone Houses of the North |
| G.1 | Karavasta | Divjakë, the central coast | Holocene, still forming | The Lagoons |
| G.2 | Narta | North of Vlorë | Ottoman monopoly to present | The Lagoons |
| G.3 | A spit is temporary | The Albanian Adriatic shore | A continuous process | The Lagoons |
| H.1 | Lungro and the Eparchy | Pollino, Calabria | Settled fifteenth century; eparchy 1919 | Arbëresh |
| H.2 | Piana degli Albanesi | West of Palermo, Sicily | Founded 1488 | Arbëresh |
| H.3 | San Demetrio Corone | Crati valley, Calabria | Settled fifteenth century | Arbëresh |
| H.4 | The language | Fifty towns in southern Italy | Fifteenth century onward | Arbëresh |
Fourteen of the twenty-nine are single locatable places and carry a pin on the map below. The rest describe a process, a technique or a stretch of coast.
At true position
Coordinates are real; the pins are projected, not placed by eye.