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Lake Skadar

Today it means: The largest lake in the Balkans, located in the west of the peninsula on the border of Albania and Montenegro between the mountain of Rumija (and further aback the Adriatic Sea) to the southwest and marshland (and further aback the Prokletije) to the northeast. Full definition →

Serbo-Croatian Skadarsko jezero

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Serbo-Croatian · calque ofSkadarsko jezero
English todayLake Skadar

Calque of Serbo-Croatian Skadarsko jezero, Скадарско језеро, from Skadar, Скадар + -sko, -ско + jȅzero, је̏зеро (“lake”). The northwestern Albanian city of Shkodër (Skadar) sits at the lake's southeastern end and gives its name to the lake.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.