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albania

UK/ælˈbeɪ.nɪ.ə/US/ælˈbeɪ.ni.ə/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,646 of 15,258mostly written

Albania is the Balkan country of Tirana, on the Adriatic coast. Travel to Albania, born in Albania, the north of Albania.

It spent forty years under one of the most isolated regimes in Europe and emerged in 1991 with almost no cars and thousands of concrete bunkers built against an invasion that never came. Albanians call their country Shqiperia rather than Albania.

Sadik Kaceli · Public domain

Definitions of albania

  1. 1nounalbaniaA country in the Balkans.B1+

    “Albania lies on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, north of Greece.”

albania is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Medieval Latin

    Albānia

  2. English

    Albania

  3. English, today

    albania

Albania Borrowed from Medieval Latin Albānia. Medieval Latin Albānia, from Medieval Greek Ἄλβανον + Medieval Latin -ia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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