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Elbasan

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Meaning

  1. A mid 18th-century alphabet created for the Albanian language Elbasan Gospel Manuscript.
  2. A municipality of Albania.
  3. A county of Albania.
  4. The fourth largest city in Albania, located in the center of the country on the river Shkumbin; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Albanian Elbasan, itself likely from Ottoman Turkish ايلبصان.

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