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Pogradec

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Meaning

  1. A city in southeastern Albania, located on a narrow plain along the southwestern shore of Lake Ohrid; it is the seat of its eponymous municipality and municipal unit.
  2. A municipal unit of the municipality of Pogradec in the county of Korçë, Albania.
  3. A municipality in the county of Korçë, Albania.

Etymology / origin

Borrowed from Albanian Pogradec, probably from an Eastern South Slavic language. See Macedonian Подградец (Podgradec), an old name of the city, from под (pod, “under, below”) + град (grad, “city, town”) + -ец (-ec), which refers to the ancient Illyrian settlement located on a hill northwest of the city.

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