[skoo-tuh-ree; for 2 also It. skoo-tah-ree] 
[shkoh-der; Alb. shkaw-duh
r] | a city in NW Albania, on Lake Scutari: a former capital of Albania. 55,000. |
[shkoh-druh; Alb. shkaw-drah] . [oos-kuh-dahr; Turk. ys-ky-dahr] | a town in NW Turkey, on the Asian shore of the Bosporus: a suburb of Istanbul. 143,938. |
| Scu·ta·ri (skōō'tə-rē) A lake of southeast Europe on the border between southeast Montenegro and northwest Albania. It was once an inlet of the Adriatic but is now separated from the sea by an alluvial isthmus. |
Scutari
town, northwestern Albania. It lies at the southeast end of Lake Scutari, at a point where the Buene (Serbo-Croatian: Bojana) River, one of Albania's two navigable streams, flows out of the lake toward the Adriatic Sea. Situated at the edge of a wide plain surrounded by high mountains, the city is overlooked on the west by the peak of Tarabosh. Shkoder is dominated on the south by the now-isolated citadel of Rozafat, past which the Kiri River flows into the Buene. Since 1900 the town has spread northeastward, away from its bazaar, which was once important because of its location at the convergence of trade routes from the Danube River and the Aegean Sea.
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