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the name of Sicilian Ragusa has also been proposed. It has been proposed by V. Orel that the Proto-Albanian *ragusa of Albanian rrush 'grape' is related to Ragusa or the source of the name. Putanec (1993) gives a review of etymological suggestion, and favours an explanation of the name as pre-Greek ("Pelasgian"), from a root cognate to Greek

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