Avlona

British  

/ ævˈləʊnə /

noun

1. the ancient name for Vlorë

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Example Sentences

The Avlona detention center holds nearly 300 young men aged 18-21, and sometimes up to 25.

From Washington Times • Feb. 18, 2021

Already, a year before, Italy had landed a small containing force in Avlona, Albania, on the Adriatic coast, because Greece had previously occupied a section of southern Albania, contiguous to her frontier.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

All night we held on, and in the morning were beside the "infames scopulos Acroceraunia," and in sight of the island of Sassina, near the harbour of Avlona.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 by Various

On the 10th it was reported that they had taken Klisura, about thirty-five miles from Avlona, in the direction of Monastir.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

Before the war Valona—which, by the way, appears as Avlona on most American-made maps—was an insignificant fishing village, but upon Italy's occupation of Albania it became a military base of great importance.

From The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)