Ghilan

Ghilan f

1. obsolete form of Gjilan
   • 1829, Félix de Beaujour, Voyage militaire dans l'Empire Othoman, volume 1, Paris, page 411:

     Le bourg de Ghilan, situé vers le point de partage, n'est composé que de quelques groupe de maisons: la plaine, qui l'entoure, est nue vers son centre, mais elle paraît cultivée vers ses bords, où l'on aperçoit quelques hameaux.

     The village of Gjilan, located near the share point, consists of only a few groups of houses: the plain surrounding it is bare towards its center, but it appears cultivated towards its edges, where a few hamlets can be seen.

   • 1910 April 18, “La situation en Albanie”, in Le Temps‎^[1]:

     Les Arnautes de Ghilan sont égalment agités.

     The Albanians of Gjilan are equally agitated.

   • 1912 October 20, “Serbes contre Turcs. La bataille de Kumanovo”, in Le petit provençal, Marseille, page 2:

     On confirma que les Turch on repousses les Serbes et le Bulgares qui avaient opéré leur function à Kumanovo, après la prise de Prichtina et de Ghilan par les Serbes, et de Karatovo par le Bulgares.

     It was confirmed that the Turks repelled the Serbs and Bulgarians who had ran their operations in Kumanovo, after the capture of Pristina and Gjilan by the Serbs, and of Kratovo by the Bulgarians.

Ghilan f

1. obsolete form of Gjilan
   • 1826, Nuovo dizionario geografico universale, Venice: G. Antonelli, page 1053:

     GHILAN o MORAVA, città della Tur. europea, nell'Albania, sangiacato di Scutari, distr. e a 8 l. E. S. E. da Pristina, e a 7. l. S. O. da Novo-Berba,^[sic] verso le sorg. della Morava, in una valle rinchiusa fra i Monti di Gliubotin e Caradagh. È residenza di un bey, e conta circa 1,300 abitanti.

     Gjilan or Morava, city in European Turkey, in Albania, sandjak of Scutari, district, at 8 leagues east-southeast from Pristina, and 7 leagues southwest of Novo Brdo, near the springs of the Morava, in a valley between the mountains of Luboten and Karadak. There resides a bey, and amounts to 1300 inhabitants.