Elbasan
English
Proper noun
Elbasan
- A city in central Albania.
Translations
city
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Albanian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] (Eli-Basan, literally “I laid my hand upon”), an inscription made on the city fortress erected in 1466 by Mehmet II. Replaced the ancient name Scampia.
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