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Where Durazzo is
Answer for the clue "Where Durazzo is ", 7 letters:
albania
Alternative clues for the word albania
Word definitions for albania in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Medieval Latin name of the country called by its inhabitants Shqipëri (literally "land of eagles," from shqiponje "eagle"), from Medieval Greek Albania , possibly from a pre-IE word *alb "hill" (also proposed as the source of Alps ) or from the PIE root ...
Usage examples of albania.
Now, when he should be on a ship bound for England, he was in Albania, in a wretched mountain village, whose suspicious inhabitants would tell him nothing.
He wanted to go back to Albania where a man might do his work in peace.
In Albania he chanced to knock at the gate of the castle belonging to the head of the powerful Wallenstein clan, where he was duly invited to spend the night.
With a half-dozen of these little girls roped behind his horse he began the journey back to Albania, looking forward to a lusty military holiday.
Entrusted to the care of Prince William of Wied when he came to Albania in 1914 to serve briefly as king.
Dictator of Albania for the last three years and soon to crown himself King Zog I.
UIA reports arrived month after month, endlessly piling confusion upon confusion as his three distant enemies across the sea laughed and joked and dealt the cards that spun out their game over the years in the eternal city, as Nubar brooded over hearsay and hints and shadowy allegations in his castle tower in Albania, safe and far away as he wanted to be, as indeed he had to be so great was his fear of the conflicting clues of the Old City that rose above time and the desert, at home in his castle tower safely handling charts and numbers to his satisfaction, safely arranging concepts.
The princess was on her way to the Riviera but promised to stop in Albania on her return in September, bringing with her a young grandson as a playmate for Nubar.
That night, terrified by the events he had fled in Albania, he was somehow able to arouse himself briefly through fear, the only time he ever had in his life.
Sophia has toyed with lignite mines in Albania and decided to look into oil.
From the coal fields of a little town in Pennsylvania to the mountains of Albania, and Athens and Jerusalem and Smyrna, and Istanbul and Crete, and now here.
Do you know he actually told me once that Albania was a good place to buy paintings?
I imagined, but when I asked him why Albania was a good place to buy paintings, his answer was that they were cheap there.
What kind of a painting could you have found in Albania sixty years ago?
In addition, he feels a longing to visit Albania, the land of his forefathers.