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Where does “Ragusa Vecchia” come from?

Ragusa Vecchia (Italian) comes from Italian Ragusa, from Latin Ragusia, from Proto-Albanian *rāguša.

Ancestry of “Ragusa Vecchia”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItalianRagusaDubrovnik
2LatinRagusia—
3Proto-Albanian*rāguša—
Every word from Proto-Albanian *rāguša →