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The Ceraunian Mountains (Albanian: Malet e Vetëtimës, "Thunderbolt mountains"; Greek: Κεραύνια Όρη, Keravnia ori; Latin: Cerauni Montes), also commonly Akroceraunian Mountains (Ancient Greek: Ἀκροκεραύνια, Albanian: Malet Akrokeraune), are a coastal mountain range in southwestern Albania, within the county of Vlorë. The range rises on the northeastern bank of the Ionian Sea. It extends for approximately 100 km (62 mi) in a southeast-northwest direction near Sarandë along the Albanian Riviera nearby to Orikum. Geologically, the Karaburun Peninsula belongs to the mountain range, forming the eastern Akroceraunian Mountains. The mountains are about 24 km (15 mi) long and about 4–7 km (2.5–4.3 mi) wide. The highest peak is Maja e Çikës with an elevation of 2,044 metres (6,706 ft). The Llogara Pass (1,027 metres (3,369 ft)) divides the mountains into a western and the Akroceraunian Mountains within the Karaburun Peninsula. The name Ceraunia is derived from Ancient Greek Κεραύνια ὄρη, meaning "thunder-split peaks" and illustrates the bad weather and the danger found there by ancient seafarers and travellers.

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Dukat is a community in Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Vlorë. The Dukat Plain covers an area of around 1,000–1,500 ha delimited by the Ceraunian Mountains and opened in the north towards the Bay of Vlorë on the Adriatic. Dukat traditionally belongs to the Albanian ethnographic region of Labëria. Its name contains the Albanian suffix -at, widely used to form toponyms from personal names and surnames. Two Illyrian tumuli used in a period spanning from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age have been found in Dukat. The architectural similarity with the tumulus of Torre Santa Sabina in Brindisi, Apulia, provides evidence of communication and interaction between the two shores of the Adriatic. Exchanges with the other side of the Adriatic and the Aegean World are found in the area. Around the 11th–10th centuries BC the first imports from southern Italy appear in the Dukat plain. Dukat lied outside the Himara region, nonetheless it collaborated with Himariots in earlier anti-Ottoman initiatives. According to a 1566 document the Dukat village had 1,800 households, however only 200 potential anti-Ottoman fighters lived there, maybe because many inhabitants had converted to Islam. Dukat participated in the Anti-Ottoman revolt of 1571 and joined Himarë in organizing an uprising in 1581. In July 1811 the Ottoman Albanian ruler Ali Pasha persuaded the region of Dukat to side with him. Dervish Ali a native of the area known as one of the organizers of the revolt of 1847 built his towers near the village which were used by Albanian rebels during the uprising for hiding and storage and are today cultural monuments. During the Vlora war forces from Dukat participated in the Albanian side and freed the village from Italian occupation. During World War II Dukat was part of the battlefield of the battle of Gjorm, where Albanian resistance units defeated and routed the troops of the Kingdom of Italy. The musical style performed in Dukat belongs to the Lab musical dialect of the Albanian iso-polyphony. In the second half of the 20th century its style took a unique identity, producing a novel way of singing in Lab music. The Dukat style gained high popularity during the 1960s and 1970s, and it was maybe the most widely performed Lab musical style in those years.

The Castle of Porto Palermo is built on a strip of land in the center of Palermo's Bay. This bay is mentioned in ancient times by the name of 'Panormus', the great harbor standing in the middle Ceraunian Mountains. At the end of the XVIII century and the beginning of the XIX, Ali Pasha, after conquering the entire Ionian coast, from Butrint to Vlora, started building several castles with the aim to control and fortify the strategic points of the coastline. One of the castles Ali Pasha (Ali Pasha Tepelena) built was the castle in Porto Palermo. Travelers of the early 19th century as well as the French Consul François Pouqueville and the English Colonel William Martin Leake, testify that a military garrison stationed in the castle. More detailed descriptions of it and the bay in question are found at the French consul who writes: 'The bay or port of Palermo has an exit about a quarter of a mile between the rocky points, where the sea furiously collides. The castle is located at the southern part of the entrance and connects to the continent through a low narrow belt. It consists of a square with several fortified positions, some cannons, some warehouses, a custom house and a church.' St. Nikolla's Church, mentioned by Pouqueville, is still preserved and just like the castle it has been declared a cultural monument. Above the castle entrance there was a plaque, in the style of an epic poem proving that it was built by Ali Pasha. The castle is in the shape of a triangle with three sharp bastions in the corner and a courtyard that opens to the west. In its interior, there are numerous halls, storerooms and backyards. Some stone stairs, built in the central part, take you to the terrace. All rooms are covered with stone arches. Special care has been taken to protect the entrance, located in the middle of one façade, between two bastions. Its interior part is protected by a rifle porthole opened on one of the castle's walls in front of the entrance. The castle is made of stone. It has regular geometric shapes and equal height of polygonal bastions.

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