The Shkumbin, also known as Shkembi, is a river in Albania. It is 181.4 km long and its drainage basin is 2,444 km². Its average discharge is 61.5 m³/s. It derives from Latin Scampinus, which replaced the Illyrian name of the river: Genusus. A Slavic intermediation has been rejected. Its inclusion in Latin loanwords into Proto-Albanian and phonetic evolution coincid…The Shkumbin, also known as Shkembi, is a river in Albania. It is 181.4 km long and its drainage basin is 2,444 km². Its average discharge is 61.5 m³/s. It derives from Latin Scampinus, which replaced the Illyrian name of the river: Genusus. A Slavic intermediation has been rejected. Its inclusion in Latin loanwords into Proto-Albanian and phonetic evolution coincides with the historical existence of a large Roman town, which gave the river its new name.
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