Durrës

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from. .

Proper noun

 * 1) An Adriatic port city in Albania, on the site of ancient Epidamnus.
 * 2) A Catholic archiepiscopal see since 1300, which lost its metropolitan status and was merged into one archbishopric with the Albanian capital Tirana (where the cathedral now is).
 * 3) An Orthodox archbishopric.

Translations

 * Albanian: Durrës ,
 * Arabic: دُرَاج, دُرَاس, دُرَاسِت
 * Aragonese: Durrazo
 * Armenian: Դուրրաս, Դյուրաքիոն
 * Aromanian: Durse, Dursa
 * Azerbaijani: Durres
 * Belarusian: Ду́рэс
 * Bulgarian: Драч
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: Duraso
 * Finnish: Durrës
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დურესი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: Ἐπίδαμνος, Δυρράχιον
 * Hebrew: דוֹרָס
 * Hungarian:, Duránc
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ドゥラス
 * Korean: ^두러스
 * Latin: Epidamnus, Dyrrhachium
 * Latvian: Duresi
 * Lithuanian: Duresis
 * Macedonian: Драч, Дрча
 * Ottoman Turkish: دراج⁩, دراچ
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese: Durres, Durazzo
 * Romanian: Durrës
 * Russian: Ду́ррес,, Дура́ццо, Дирра́хий
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: Драч
 * Roman: Drač
 * Sicilian: Durazzu
 * Slovak: Drač
 * Slovene: Drač
 * Spanish: Durrës, Dirraquio
 * Swedish: Durrës
 * Thai: ดูร์เรส
 * Turkish: Dıraç
 * Ukrainian: Ду́ррес, Дура́ццо, Дира́хій
 * Urdu: دراج
 * Venetian: Durazo

Etymology
From, from. The modern Albanian pronunciation is derived from either the Latin or Greek source. However, the modern Albanian form, including the Italian form, derive through intermediate palatalized antecedent form as, attested in the early centuries AD. The presevation of Old indicates the modern name derives from populations to whom the toponym was known in its original Doric pronunciation. The modern Albanian name evolved independently from the parent language of Albanian around the same period of the post-Roman era in the first centuries AD, observable through the differences in stress in the two toponyms (first syllable in Albanian, second in Italian) highlights.

In English usage, the Italian borrowing used to be widespread, but the local Albanian borrowing  has gradually replaced it in recent decades.