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Avlona

British  
/ ævˈləʊnə /

noun

  1. the ancient name for Vlorë

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From Washington Times Feb. 18, 2021

With Saseno under the control of a foreign power, the possessor of Avlona could never make the town into a place of arms.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various

Regarding Epirus, we declared clearly that we have no designs upon Avlona.

From The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 by Various

Montenegro is unserved by any seaport and even the Italians who had landed at Avlona did not hope to establish any communication with them through the mountainous country intervening.

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

So we were obliged to put in to Avlona harbour, deeply lamenting.

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

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