باتروتام (آلبانیایی: Butrint; لاتین: Buthrōtum; from یونانی باستان: [Βουθρωτόν, Bouthrōtón] Error: {{Lang}}: متن دارای نشانه‌گذاری ایتالیک است (راهنما)) در یونان باستان بعد از آن در امپراتوری روم یکی از شهرهای اپیروس بوده‌است.[۱][۲][۳]
اکنون به عنوان یک سایت باستان شناسی در استان سارانده و ۱۴ کیلومتری جنوب سارانده و نزدیک به مرز یونان قرار دارد.در دوران باستان با نام‌های Βουθρωτόν (Bouthrōton) or (Βουθρώτιος) Bouthrōtios[۴] و درلاتین با نام Buthrotum شناخته شده‌است.
این مکان در سال ۱۹۹۹ به عنوان در میراث جهانی یونسکو به ثبت رسید.[۵]
↑Borza, Eugene N. (1992). In the Shadow of Olympus: the Emergence of Macedon (Revised Edition). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. "Speakers of these various Greek dialects settled different parts of Greece at different times during the Middle Bronze Age, with one group, the 'northwest' Greeks, developing their own dialect and peopling central Epirus. This was the origin of the Molossian or Epirotic tribes." "[...]a proper dialect of Greek, like the dialects spoken by Dorians and Molossians." "The western mountains were peopled by the Molossians (the western Greeks of Epirus)."
↑Crew, P. Mack (1982). The Cambridge Ancient History – The Expansion of the Greek World, Eighth to Sixth Centuries B.C., Part 3: Volume 3 (Second Edition). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. "That the Molossians... spoke Illyrian or another barbaric tongue was nowhere suggested, although Aeschylus and Pindar wrote of Molossian lands. That they in fact spoke greek was implied by Herodotus' inclusion of Molossi among the Greek colonists of Asia Minor, but became demonstrable only when D. Evangelides published two long inscriptions of the Molossian State, set up p. 369 B.C at Dodona, in Greek and with Greek names, Greek patronymies and Greek tribal names such as Celaethi, Omphales, Tripolitae, Triphylae, etc. As the Molossian cluster of tribes in the time of Hecataeus included the Orestae, Pelagones, Lyncestae, Tymphaei and Elimeotae, as we have argued above, we may be confindent that they too were Greek-speaking."
↑Hammond, NGL (1994). Philip of Macedon. London, UK: Duckworth. "Epirus was a land of milk and animal products.... The social unit was a small tribe, consisting of several nomadic or semi-nomadic groups, and these tribes, of which more than seventy names are known, coalesced into large tribal coalitions, three in number: Thesprotians, Molossians and Chaonians.... We know from the discovery of inscriptions that these tribes were speaking the Greek language (in a West-Greek dialect)"
↑An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis by Mogens Herman, ISBN0-19-814099-1,2004, page 343,"Bouthroton (Bouthrotios)"
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