Prizren Destrict (Serbie)

The Prizren Destrict (Albanie: Distrikti i Prizrenit; [Призренски округ , Prizrenski okrug] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) wis a destrict in Kosovo atween 1990 an 1999. It wis locatit in the soothren pairt o Kosovo i Metohija. It haed a population o 376,085. Seat o the destrict wis in the ceety o Prizren. Frae ane point o view o the Serbie govrenment the destrict de jure still exist, despite the fact that Serbie govrenment acceptit cevil UN admenistration over Kosovo.

Prizrenski okrug
Призренски округ
Location o Prizren Destrict in Serbie
Location o Prizren Destrict in Serbie
Kintra Serbie
CaipitalPrizren
Population
 (2002 census)
 • Total376,085
Municipalities5

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A map o Kosovo's destricts at the time

It includit the municipalities o:

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The Kirk o the Oor Lady o Ljeviš, in Prizren, is the endoument o Stefan Milutin, thegither wi the Airchbishop Sava III, biggit in 1307.

Vicinity o Prizren is distinguished bi ither kirks an aw: the Kirk o Holy Salvation frae 1348, the Kirk o Saunt Nicholas frae 1332, the Kirk o Prince Marko frae 1371, the Assembly Kirk o Saunt George frae the seicont hauf o the nineteent century.

In the saxteent an seiventeenth century, at the period o Ottoman rule, mosques, hammams, an medreses flouered throughoot Prizren an its vicinity. The Mosque o Bajrakli Gazi Mehmed-Pasha is the earliest monument o Islamic airchitectur in Prizren. It wis biggit in 1561, an still the day it safeguards beuks in Arab an Turkis, includin a Koran frae 1312.

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