Berat

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A culturally significant city surrounded by mountains in south-central Albania (country), located on the right bank of the river river, Osum and west of the Tomorr mountain range; it is the seat of its eponymous county, municipality and municipal unit.
• county Albania (country).
• municipality of the county of county, Berat Albania (country).
• municipal unit of the municipality of municipality, Berat in the county of county, Berat Albania (country)

Related

Similar words

• the city of a thousand windows

Origin

• Borrowed from Albanian Berat, from Ottoman Turkish برات, from Old Church Slavonic Бѣлградъ ("white city, white town"), a name given to the city in the 9th century by its Bulgarian occupants, which in turn is a compound of бѣлъ (from Proto-Slavic *bělъ) and градъ (from Proto-Slavic *gordъ).