Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Albania on the Adriatic Sea. Founded as a Greek colony c. 625 BC, it is the country's chief seaport.
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- proper noun An
Adriatic port city inAlbania , on the site of Ancient Epidamnus - proper noun A
Catholic archiepiscopal see since 1300, which lost itsmetropolitan status and was merged into onearchbishopric with the Albanian capitalTirana (Tirane, Tiranë; where the cathedral now is) - proper noun An
Orthodox archbishorpic
Etymologies
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From Albanian Durrës; the older form Durazzo came through the intermediate of Italian.
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