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Alanya.

a city and district of Antalya Province, Turkey

6 characters3 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

name/ɑˈɫɑn.jɑ/
  1. a city and district of Antalya Province, Turkey

Where this word comes from

Reportedly a misspelling by Ataturk of the Romanization Alaiye of the name علائیه, so named after Sultan Alaeddin Kayqubad I.

name/ɑˈɫɑn.jɑ/
  1. a medieval kingdom of the Alans (proto-Ossetians) in the Northern Caucasus, roughly in the location of the modern republics of Adygea, Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia-Alania in modern Russia, existing from the 9th to 13th centuries CE.

    historical
  2. North Ossetia-Alania: North Ossetia-Alania (a republic and federal subject of Russia, located in the Northern Caucasus mountains).

    colloquial
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Russian Алания (Alanija), from Latin Alānī, from Ancient Greek Ἀλανοί (Alanoí), from Proto-Sarmatian *Āllān.

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