This castle represents the only urban center of Tirana region with long life continuance and is known by the inhabitants with the name Qytezë (meaning Small Town). The first residential traces go back to the Bronze Era (XIV – XII centuries BC). Its ruins cover the higher range of hills detached from the mountains of Krraba up to 479 meters above sea level. A steep plateau had been selected to build the castle and half of it is not surrounded by walls, but rather is protected by a natural rock. The wall that surrounds the castle extends across the southern part of the rocky hill and is approximately 300 m long from east to west. The fortification system of this center has three different techniques for wall construction: the first phase was built with raw stones, the second phase was built with large carved stones without any additional materials (Hellenistic period) and the third phase (which follows the same technique) was built with carved stones connected with mortar (late Antiquity, IV - VI Century). The archeological material in Dorëz dates at the beginning of the Roman invasion. In the Hellenistic era, the city of Dorëz was an important center of the Parthenius area. During the Roman invasion, this city, like all the cities and towns of South Illyria, had the same fate of abandonment, but was repopulated 6 centuries after oppression. Other fragments of the walls of a later period show that the Illyrian city was inhabited until late Antiquity.