Mokër is a geographical region in Southeastern Albania, composed by 47 villages, which are all above 1,000m from sea level. The region is composed of two subregions, Upper Mokër (Mokra e Sipërme) and Lower Mokër (Mokra e Poshtme). In recent years, several villages have lost much of their population due to severe economic conditions, unemployment, lack of infrastructure and emigration.[1] One of the villages in the Mokër region is Selcë e Poshtme, which was an Illyrian settlement established in the early Iron Age. Located in the region of the Illyrian Dassaretii, it holds the Illyrian Royal Tombs which were built during the 4th and 2nd centuries BC.[2][3][4]

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  1. ^ "Pogradec, Reportazh në Mokër zona që "vdiq" nga ikja e njerëzve" [Pogradec, Reportage in Mokër, the area that "died" from the flight of people] (in Albanian). 2 April 2013. Retrieved 2024-03-30.
  2. ^ Castiglioni 2010, pp. 93–94: "Le matériel céramique retrouvé (notamment des tessons peints en marron rougeâ-tre) a permis de dater les débuts de la vie de ce site à partir de la première période del'âge du fer. La première phase pré-urbaine a évolué en une deuxième phase, urbaine, au commencement du IVe siècle av. J.-C. et jusqu'au Ier siècle ap. J.-C. La troisième etdernière phase, moins riche que la précédente, se conclut avec l'abandon de la villedans l'Antiquité tardive (IVe-VIe siècles ap. J.-C.)... "Selcë appartenait géographiquement, au IIIe siècle av. J.-C., à la région illyrienne appelée Dassarétide, territoire comprenant les vallées de l'Osum et du Devoll et s'étendant vers l'est dans les plateaux de Kolonje et de Korçe, et dans la zone autour du lac de Pogradec."
  3. ^ Shehi 2015, p. 54.
  4. ^ Zindel et al. 2018, p. 401.

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