Saseno

American  

[sah-suh-naw] / ˈsɑ səˌnɔ /

noun

1. an island off the W coast of Albania, at the entrance to Valona Bay: belongs to Albania. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).

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Saseno

The Russians are thought to have established a base, complete with floating drydock, on Albania's Saseno Island.

From Time Magazine Archive

So Mussolini's most practical route into the Balkans lies across the Strait of Otranto, on one side of which he has a base at Brindisi and at the other the fortified island of Saseno.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is really no need for the Italians to demand Valona or Saseno, the island which lies in front of it.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

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

The 24. in the morning wee found ourselues before an Island called Saseno, which is in the entrie to Valona, and the wind prosperous.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard