Preveza - The Name "Preveza"

The Name "Preveza"

The name Preveza is of uncertain etymology. There are three versions about the origin of word Πρέβεζα:

  1. It might come from the old Slavic word perevoz meaning "crossing, passage" (Diogenes Charitonos and Fyodor Uspeski) or
  2. from the old Albanian word prevëzë-za, that means transportation (Petros Fourikis and Konstantinos Amantos), or #from the Latin word prevesione, that means sustenance (victuals) (Max Vasmer, Peter Schustall, Johannes Conter),

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