Durrës

See also Durres

English

Alternative forms

• Durres

Etymology

From Albanian Durrës; the older form Durazzo came through the intermediate of Italian.

Proper noun

Durrës

1. An Adriatic port city in Albania, on the site of Ancient Epidamnus
2. A Catholic archiepiscopal see since 1300, which lost its metropolitan status and was merged into one archbishopric with the Albanian capital Tirana (Tirane, Tiranë; where the cathedral now is)
3. An Orthodox archbishorpic

Synonyms

• Durazzo (Italian)

Translations

Adriatic port city in Albania

• Albanian: Durrës (sq)
• Bulgarian: Драч
• German: Durrës (de)
• Greek: Δυρράχιο (el) (Dyrráchio)
  • Ancient Greek Επίδαμνος (Epidamnos), Δυρράχιον (Dyrrhachion)
• Italian: Durazzo (it)

• Latin: Dyrrachium (la)
• Macedonian: Драч
• Romanian: Durrës (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian: Драч
• Sicilian: Durazzu (scn)
• Turkish: Dıraç (tr)

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Albanian

Etymology

From Latin Dyrrachium < Ancient Greek Δυρράχιον (Dyrrhacion), through the Medieval Slavic form Дърачь (Dŭračĭ) from when the city was held by the Serbian and Bulgarian empires.

Proper noun

Durrës (definite Durrsi)

1. Durrës