DURRES PORT

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Port of Durres did exist already from the 7th century BC.
The Albania Post issued six stamps and a miniature sheet in 2024, which shows us the port, two stamps can be identified, the other four are not clear enough to identified.

TEUTA on the 20 L,the name is on the bow. She has a kingpost mast on the foreship.
VLORA on the 5L, most probably she is on the stamp, she has a single mast on the foreship.

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The MS shows us a chart, made by Bartolomeo Pareto who was a medieval priest and cartographer from Genoa who is best known for his sole surviving work, a 1455 nautical chart of the known world. The chart is highly ornate and is notable for its depiction of Antillia, a phantom island said to exist in the Atlantic Ocean. Thought to have been lost in the mid-1800s, the Italian geographer Pietro Amat di San Filippo reported having located it in a storage room in the library of the Roman College in 1877.

In the margin is depict a Illyrian galley of which Wikipedia gives.

The lemb, lembus or lembos (Ancient Greek: λέμβος, lembos; Latin: lembus) was an ancient wide term covering a range of small ships, which were used for different purposes, both civilian and military.

It was small and light, with a low freeboard. It was a fast and maneuverable warship, capable of carrying 50 men in addition to the rowers. It was the galley used by Illyrian pirates. Illyrians used them at Medion under Agron, and at Elis, Messene, Phoenice, Issa, Epidamnus, Apollonia, Corcyra and Paxus under Teuta. Philip V of Macedon used lembi during the First Macedonian War.

The lemb was more common among the Illyrians of the southern Adriatic, while in the northern Adriatic, the more common ship was the liburna which originated from the Liburnians. The lemb appears in several Illyrian coins of the southern Adriatic communities, which were politically connected with the Illyrian kingdom, like the Labeatae, the Daorsi, and the cities of Scodra and Lissus.

The term λέμβος, lembos has been recorded in Classical sources since the 4th century BC onwards. The Illyric-Greek term λέμβος was later Latinized as lembus. The ultimate source of the term is obscure.An Illyrian origin has been suggested.

The lembi were small ships used originally for civilian purposes, and thereafter adapted to warfare usages, with at least three sub-types:

Small ship used in the Aegean as towing boat, ship's boat, transportation boat, and platform for the catapults.

Southern Adriatic (Illyrian) lemb for naval warfare, piracy (also attacking unarmed ships), trade, and swift transport of the troops: the southern Adriatic shipbuilders most likely adopted and developed an already existing small and fast Aegean type of ship.

Upgraded Macedonian fighting lemb: a Macedonian prototype of the Illyrian lemb was built at the behest of king Philip V of Macedon, who ordered one hundred lembs to be built by Illyrian shipbuilders, in order to transport his troops in 216 BC. Philip's shipbuilders further developed in 214 BC this ship type by enlarging it into a bireme warship. Those warships were even fitted with rams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lembus
Albania 2024 5/50l, sg?, Scott? And MS 250L sgMS?< Scott?