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Durrës

//ˈdʊɹəs// name

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An Adriatic port city in Albania, on the site of ancient Epidamnus.
  2. 2
    A Catholic archiepiscopal see since 1300, which lost its metropolitan status and was merged into one archbishopric with the Albanian capital Tirana (where the cathedral now is).
  3. 3
    An Orthodox archbishopric.

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Durrës, from Latin Dyrrhachium, from Ancient Greek Δυρράχιον (Durrhákhion). Doublet of Dyrrhachium and Durazzo.

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