From theVenetan nameValona of the now Albanian cityVlorë around which it grows unlike in Italy; but an occasional acquaintance at first and one of the principal sources oftannin in the English-speaking world only in the late 19th century, largely imported from the Ottoman Empire,Smyrna being the main trading centre for it, whence toTrieste it passed the first time in 1842 to reach the Austro-Hungarian leather industry and becoming popular in the German Reich only by the 1880s.
valonia (pluralvalonias)