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Byllis: History, Art & Regions

Byllis (Albanian: Bylis; Greek: Βύλλις; Latin: Byllis) or Bullis or Boullis (Βουλλίς) was an ancient city and the chief settlement of the Illyrian tribe of the Bylliones, traditionally located in southern Illyria. In Hellenistic times the city was either part of Illyria or Epirus. In Roman times it was included within Epirus Nova, in the province of…

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Byllis topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Art and Regions as prominent areas in the source structure around Byllis.

Related topics
92
Source areas
4
Connected nodes
96
Extracted relationships
114
Concept neighborhoods
23
Bridge connections
96

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 51 topics
Overview · 23 topics
Name · 10 topics
Association with see of Apollonia · 8 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
Public
Location
Hekal, Fier County, Albania
Archaeologists
Camillo Prashniker · Neritan Ceka · Skënder Muçaj · Jean-Pierre Sodini · Pascale Chevalier
Cultures
Illyrian · Ancient Greek · Roman
Excavation dates
1978–1991 2000–present
Periods
Classical · Hellenistic · Roman · Byzantine

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Name

History

Association with see of Apollonia

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Byllis connects Entity context

The extracted context around Byllis shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Byllis → After, Afterwards, Albania, Alexander, Alexander II, Apollonia, BC, Bylliones, Cassander, Epirus, Glaukias, Great, Hellenistic, Illyrian, In, Macedon, Macedonians, Mytilos, Nevertheless, Pyrrhus Another extracted example is Byllis → AD, BC, Boulinos, Boullis, Bullideus, Byllion, Byzantium, Dodona, Geography, Hellenistic, Illyria, Illyridos, Myrmidons, Neoptolemus, Pseudo-Scymnus, Ptolemy, Stephanus, The, This, Trojan War. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Byllis

Top relations

related to Hellenistic period · 23
Byllis → After, Afterwards, Albania, Alexander, Alexander II, Apollonia, BC, Bylliones, Cassander, Epirus, Glaukias, Great, Hellenistic, Illyrian, In, Macedon, Macedonians, Mytilos, Nevertheless, Pyrrhus
related to Attestation · 20
Byllis → AD, BC, Boulinos, Boullis, Bullideus, Byllion, Byzantium, Dodona, Geography, Hellenistic, Illyria, Illyridos, Myrmidons, Neoptolemus, Pseudo-Scymnus, Ptolemy, Stephanus, The, This, Trojan War
related to Association with see of Apollonia · 19
Byllis → Apollonia, At, Bishop, Byzantine Emperor Leo, Chalcedon, Council, Dyrrachium, Ephesus, Epirus Nova, Eusebius, Felix, In, It, One, Philocharis, Some, The Annuario Pontificio, Vallidus, Whether Philocharis
related to Roman and Byzantine period · 17
Byllis → After, BC, Bylliake, Colonia Bullidensis, Elder, Emperor Justinian, Epirus Nova, Great Roman Civil War, Greek, Its, Pliny, Roman, Roman Empire, Strabo, The, Under, Victorinus
related to Classical period · 14
Byllis → Apollonia, BC, Bylliones, Dodona, Epidamnos, Epirus, Illyrian, In, Initially, Mallakastër, Mid-4th, Selenica, The, Vjosa
Archaeologists · 6
Byllis → Camillo Prashniker, Jean-Pierre Sodini, Neritan Ceka, Nicolas Beaudry, Pascale Chevalier, Skënder Muçaj
Periods · 4
Byllis → Byzantine, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman
Cultures · 3
Byllis → Ancient Greek, Illyrian, Roman
Excavation dates · 1
Byllis → 1978–1991 2000–present
Location · 1
Byllis → Hekal, Fier County, Albania

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

illyrian bylliones city bc hellenistic greek roman century apollonia epirus illyria also ancient however cities settlement territory area albania archaeological

Byllis relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 114 structured relationships around Byllis. Examples in this analysis include Byllis → Archaeologists → Camillo Prashniker and Byllis → Archaeologists → Neritan Ceka. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
ByllisArchaeologistsCamillo Prashniker1.00infobox
ByllisArchaeologistsNeritan Ceka1.00infobox
ByllisArchaeologistsSkënder Muçaj1.00infobox
ByllisArchaeologistsJean-Pierre Sodini1.00infobox
ByllisArchaeologistsPascale Chevalier1.00infobox
ByllisArchaeologistsNicolas Beaudry1.00infobox
ByllisCulturesIllyrian1.00infobox
ByllisCulturesAncient Greek1.00infobox
ByllisCulturesRoman1.00infobox
ByllisExcavation dates1978–1991 2000–present1.00infobox
ByllisLocationHekal, Fier County, Albania1.00infobox
ByllisOwnerPublic1.00infobox
ByllisPeriodsClassical1.00infobox
ByllisPeriodsHellenistic1.00infobox
ByllisPeriodsRoman1.00infobox
ByllisPeriodsByzantine1.00infobox
ByllisRegionIllyria1.00infobox
ByllisTypeSettlement1.00infobox

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Byllis bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Greek, Ancient and Bc. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Byllis
    • Greek
    • Ancient
    • Bc
    • Also
    • City
    • Hellenistic
    • Illyrian
    • Albania
    • Archaeological
    • Epirus
    • Apollonia
    • Century
  • byllis
    • Greek
    • Ancient
    • Bc
    • Also
    • City
    • Hellenistic
    • Illyrian
    • Albania
    • Archaeological
    • Epirus
    • Apollonia
    • Century
  • greek
    • Located
    • Bc
    • Found
    • Illyrian
    • Century
    • Settlement
    • Apollonia
    • Hellenistic
    • Considered
    • Region
    • Cities
    • Illyria
  • illyrian
    • Region
    • Hellenistic
    • Bc
    • Settlement
    • Illyria
    • Located
    • Southern
    • Century
    • War
    • Territory
    • Also
    • Roman
  • bylliones
    • Illyrian
    • Territory
    • Koinon
    • City
    • Community
    • War
    • Bc
    • Settlement
    • Area
    • Hellenistic
    • Located
    • Part
  • hellenistic
    • Attested
    • Archaeological
    • Illyrian
    • Also
    • Epirus
    • Bc
    • Koinon
    • Times
    • Century
    • Albania
    • Found
    • Region
  • apollonia
    • Bishop
    • Bc
    • Located
    • Attested
    • Found
    • One
    • Two
    • Byllis
    • Greek
    • Epirus
    • Illyrian
    • Hellenistic
  • ancient greek
    • Greek
    • Located
    • Byllis
    • Found
    • Region
    • Bc
    • Settlement
    • Illyrian
    • Century
    • Illyria
    • Territory
    • Bylliones

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Byllis, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Byllis with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
ByllisHistory · splits 45 ⟂ 52
ByllisOverview · splits 73 ⟂ 24
ByllisName · splits 86 ⟂ 11
ByllisAssociation with see of Apollonia · splits 88 ⟂ 9

Map overview Semantic statistics

Byllis

Nodes97
Edges96
Triples114
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.020619
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Byllis to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Art & Regions, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Byllis · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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