Cljisura

Etymology
Related to or from Byzantine Greek, originally meaning "an enclosure, defile", itself either from , from , or from. The aforementioned Greek term is also the Greek name for the town, as well as another in Larissa, and once referred to a fortified mountain pass and military district in medieval times. A surface analysis of the Aromanian word also indicates it seems to be composed of the elements (as past participle of the verb, variant of , and corresponding to Latin ; cf. the more common ) and the suffix , from the corresponding Latin suffix. It is more likely that the Aromanian word came through the Greek intermediate rather than deriving straight from Latin. There is also a small town in southern Albania named, likely from the same Greek word (cf. also ). Several other locations in the Balkans, linked to narrow straits or passes, have similar names. The word appears in South Slavic languages as. See also (Daco-) Romanian (which likely came through a South Slavic intermediate like Serbian; cf. also Ukrainian klisura).

Proper noun

 * 1) a town in the Kastoria region of northern Greece, also known as Vlahocljisura