Vlor

40°27N 19°30E, pop (2000e) 84 300. Seaport and capital of Vlorë district, SW Albania, on the Bay of Vlorë, 112 km/69 mi SW of Tiranë; a 5th-c bishopric; independence proclaimed here in 1912; railway; well-protected harbour; fishing, olive oil processing.

Valona is a popular narrative song and poetry form of the Mexican state of Michoacán. musically, all valonas are sung (in fact, almost recited) with one and only tune, with a musical refrain after each strophe, than can vary.

As a narrative popular genre, valona is literary and musically related with Mexican corrido, and by its stylistic, it is akin with other Mexican genres composed in ten minor-verse strophes (décimas or espinelas), such as some huapangos and the son arribeño, along with Latin American genres as Chilean run-run and the rapsodes of Argentine payadores.