Arapaj is a village in the former municipality of Rrashbull, Durrës County, Albania.
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Coordinates: 41°18′11″N 19°30′20″E / 41.30306°N 19.50556°E | |
Country | Albania |
County | Durrës |
Municipality | Durrës |
Municipal unit | Rrashbull |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Durrës.[1] It is a southern suburb of Durrës, located near the Mediterranean coast, approximately 6 kilometres south of this city.[citation needed]
Arapaj is a noted archaeological site, containing the substantial Basilica of Saint Michael dedicated to Saint Michael, an early Palaeo-Christian church which is believed to back to the fifth or sixth century.[2][3] It has been declared a Cultural Monument of Albania because of its architectural significance.[4] A mosaic unearthed in the Basilica also demonstrates how engrained its culture was later on with the early Byzantine Empire.[5]
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