Fier

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A city and municipality in southwestern Albania (country), located east of the Adriatic Sea on the river Gjanica, just south of its confluence with the river Seman; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
• county Albania (country).
• municipality Albania (country).

Origin

• Borrowed from Albanian Fier, from fier. Alternatively borrowed from Italian fiera ("trade fair") due to the arrival of Venetian merchants during the Renaissance.