Valona
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Tepeleni blocked the road to the vital port of Valona, Klisura the road to Berat, northeast of Valona.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meantime, Greek and British bombers hammered at the landing places, rendered Valona and Durazzo "almost useless" in the wake of the new arrivals, threatened to cut off their supplies and redouble General Soddu's problem.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the fall of Porto Edda the Italians were left with only three ports to bring troops and supplies into Albania: >> Valona, a windy harbor with two wharves with shallow draft.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under Sir Andrew Cunningham's second-in-command, acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, an expert on big ships, the battle force undertook daring raids into the Strait of Otranto and once far beyond Valona in the Adriatic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whenever we had touched on our journey down the coast we had been warned against going to Valona because of the danger of contracting fever.
From The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
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