Candavia
Κανδαο̈́ια
Candavia (Κανδαο̈́ια, Hierosol. Itin.; Peut. Tab.: Elbassán), a mountain of Illyria. The Egnatian Way, commencing at Dyrrhachium, crossed this mountain, which lies between the sources of the river Genusus and the lake Lychnitis, and was called from this Via Candavia. (Strab. vii. p.323.) Its distance from Dyrrhachium was 87 M. P. (Plin. Nat. 3.33; comp. Cic. Att. 3.7; Caes. B.C. 3.79; Sen. Ep. xxxi.) Colonel Leake (Northern Greece, vol. i. p. 343, iii. p. 280) found its bearing N. 23 W. by compass.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.