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Saseno
[ sah-suh-naw ]
noun
- an island off the W coast of Albania, at the entrance to Valona Bay: belongs to Albania. 2 sq. mi. (5 sq. km).
Example Sentences
Except for an occasional Soviet submarine putting in at Albania's Saseno naval base,* and risky air communications across mountainous and hostile Greece and Yugoslavia, Albania has no contact with the Soviet world.
The Russians are thought to have established a base, complete with floating drydock, on Albania's Saseno Island.
So Mussolini's most practical route into the Balkans lies across the Strait of Otranto, on one side of which he has a base at Brindisi and at the other the fortified island of Saseno.
It is protected by the island of Saseno, the ancient Saso, and by Cape Glossa, the northernmost headland of the Acroceraunian mountains.
There is really no need for the Italians to demand Valona or Saseno, the island which lies in front of it.
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