English Explanatory Dictionary

Korçë

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city in southeastern Albania, located on a plateau west of the mountain of Morava; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
  2. A county of Albania.
  3. A municipality of Albania.

Word forms

Korçë

Etymology

Borrowed from Albanian Korçë, from a South Slavic language. See the archaic Bulgarian word горица (gorica, “little mountain”), which could refer to the mountain of Morava as the city was under Bulgarian rule during the Middle Ages.

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