Durrës

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An Adriatic port city in Albania, on the site of ancient Epidamnus.
• 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).
• An Orthodox archbishopric.

Related

Similar words

• Durazzo
• Dyrrhachium

Origin

• Borrowed from Albanian Durrës, from Latin Dyrrhachium, from Ancient Greek Δυρράχιον. Dyrrhachium, and Durazzo.