Romanization markers in Epidamnos/Dyrrachium and its territory. A critical approach to the problem

The city and the territory of Epidamnos/Dyrrachium has been a strategic center in the Adriatic Sea, controlling trade routes and representing a meeting point between the Illyrian, Greek and Macedonian cultures. The overlapping cultures left marks both in the culture and the landscape of the polis and its territory and the later roman conquest affected both urban and country landscape. This contribution aims at highlighting the Romanization markers at Dyrrachium/Epidamnos in order to understand the steps of the Romanization process and the role played by the past, local and roman cultures towards the construction of a “new” identity.