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	Prizren - LoveToKnow 1911
		PRIZREN (also written Prisren, Prisrend, Prizrendi, Prezdra and Perzerin), the capital of the sanjak of Prizren, in the vilayet of Kossovo, Albania, European Turkey; 65 m.
		Prizren is beautifully situated 1424 ft. above sea-level, among the northern outliers of the Shar Planina.
		In the 12th century it was the residence of the kings of Servia, and the sanjak of Prizren forms part of the region still called Old Servia (Stara Srbiya) by the Sla y s.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Prizren (379 words)

	Osmanlı Tarihi Kültürü Medeniyeti Edebiyatı Sanatı
		The original Prizren dialect of Serbo-Croatian is an archaic variant of shtokavian - and a member of the Balkan sprachbund.
		Prizren was the cultural and intellectual centre of Ottoman Kosovo.
		Prizren and its surrounding municipality were badly affected by the Kosovo War of 1998-1999.
	www.osmanlimedeniyeti.com /wiki/Prizren_.html (821 words)

	Prizren - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prizren is the seat of a Roman Catholic archbishop and of an Orthodox Eastern bishop.
		In Prizren are numerous ancient churches and monasteries, some in ruins.
		SERBIA.Kosovo, in the City of Prizren a discarded canon,near a Mosque and Orthodox church.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-prizren.html (229 words)

	Serbia Info / Facts and Figures / Districts
		It encompasses the municipalities of: Suva Reka, Orahovac, Prizren, Gora i Opolje.
		The Church of the Virgin Ljeviska, in Prizren, is the endowment of king Milutin, together with the Archbishop Sava III, built in 1307.
		Vicinity of Prizren is distinguished by other churches also: the Church of Holly Salvation from 1348, the Church of St. Nicholas from 1332, the Church of Prince Marko from 1371, the Assembly Church of St. George from the second half of the nineteenth century.
	www.serbia-info.com /facts/districts/prizrenski.html (194 words)

	Prizren - Economy
		Prizren was well known in the former Yugoslavia for its fruits, vegetables and wine.
		Prizren’s cultural heritage attracts not only visitors from all over Kosova but it offers possibilities for the development of tourism and for the preservation of ancient craftwork traditional skills.
		The business community in Prizren is active and has a long tradition of engaging in a meaningful manner in the matters pertaining to municipal economic development.
	www.komuna-prizren.org /en/economy (646 words)

	Diocese of Raska and Prizren
		The Diocese of Prizren encompassed the territories of the old Eparchies of Hvosno, Budimlje and Polim, or Petrovac, that is, the town of Prizren with the surroundings, Hvosno (territories around Pec and Decani), and the places around the influences of the rivers Beli Drim and Crni Drim.
		The residence of Prizren bishops was in Prizren in the church of the Most Holy Theoktos of Ljevis.
		The first written document mentioning the diocese of Prizren is the chrysobull of Basil II in which it was recorded that the diocese of Prizren belonged to the metropolitan jurisdiction of the archdiocese of Ochrid.
	www.kosovo.net /diocese.html (2268 words)

	Prizren, Yugoslavia, Pictures
		Prizren, city in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), in the Kosovo province of southern Serbia.
		Prizren is located on the Bistrica River in the foothills of the Sar Mountains.
		Prizren was founded after the region became a part of the Byzantine Empire in the late 4th century.
	www.greatestcities.com /Europe/Yugoslavia/Prizren_city.html (207 words)

	UNDER ORDERS: War Crimes in Kosovo - 11. Prizren Municipality
		Prizren municipality was the site of many crimes during the period of NATO bombing, including in the city of Prizren itself, especially the neighborhood of Tusus.
		Prizren was also one of the seven regional bases in Kosovo of the Serbian police, known as a Sekretarijat Unutrasnjih Poslova (Secretariat for Internal Affairs), or SUP.
		The League of Prizren was founded in 1878, bringing together representatives of all Albanian inhabited regions to demand autonomy from the Ottomans.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/kosovo/undword-11A.html (2655 words)

	Prizren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The craftsmen of Prizren are well known for their beautiful gold and silver articles, embroidery, the Prizren cloth, knives, and other folk handcrafts, trades which Prizrenians have preserved throughout the centuries.
		Prizren was established at a convenient locality as an important trading town, through which passed old roads towards the Adriatic coast and the interior of the Balkan peninsula.
		Built originally as a Roman Catholic Church and one of the primary churches of the Catholics of the region, Levishka was later converted to an Eastern Orthodox Church.
	hem.passagen.se /akule/pergjith/prizren.html (654 words)

	Travel Kosova - Open Project - Prizren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prizren is the main town in southern Kosova and the location of UNMIK administration regional headquarters.
		Prizren is known for its ethnic diversity and enjoys a long tradition of tolerance and inter-ethnic co-operation Approximately 221,000 people live in Prizren municipality — in both the town and 76 villages scattered throughout the municipality.
		A command structure of the KPS in Prizren is compound from 1 Lieutenant Colonel and 14 Sergeants.
	www.travelkosova.com /modules.php?name=Articles&file=article&sid=7 (1586 words)

	Prizren (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		View of Prizren Prizren (Serbian Cyrillic &1055;&1088;&1080;&1079;&1088;&1077;&1085;; Albanian Prizreni) is an historic city located in the province of Serbia called Kosovo (officially Kosovo and Metohia) at 42.23° North, 20.74° East.
		It is the administrative capital of Prizreni District, which has an estimated population of about 178,000 and is located on the slopes of the &352;ar mountain in the south-western part of the province, close to the Albanian border.
		It is the administrative center of the Prizren District of Serbia.
	prizren.iqnaut.net (788 words)

	Bogorodica Ljeviska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bogorodica Ljeviska Cathedral is the main official diocesan church of Prizren Orthodox Serb Bishops and is considered by Orthodox Serbs as a pride of the royal city of Prizren.
		It is assumed that the Bishopric mentioned in a charter by the Byzantine emperor Basil II in 1018, was situated in this church (monastery).
		In the 1 l th century the church was, without a doubt, the seat of the Prizren bishops as cited in a document of Basil II's, in which he confirms the rights and defines the extent of the Ohrid Diocese.
	www.decani.org /ljeviska.html (5850 words)

	Chapter X.
		The Prizren Moslems, already alarmed at the rumour that Constitution meant loss of privilege to them, and determined not to be compelled to give military service, were said to have understated the number of their houses and to have refused to give the number of inhabitants.
		It was in Prizren in the olden days that the finest artists in gold and silver inlay flourished, and turned out yataghans and gunbarrels fit for fairy princes, and from thence they spread into Bosnia.
		I accepted his hospitality unhappily, for I felt that, so far as Prizren and its neighbourhood were concerned, the cause was lost, dead and gone–as lost as is Calais to England, and the English claim to Normandy.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/durham/albania/albania-X.html (8962 words)

	Balkan Odyssey Part 12: Kosovo!!! - Gadling
		Prizren turned out to be a pleasant surprise and one of the highlights of my trip.
		Most of the orthodox churches in Kosova are indeed orthodox churches of albanians and not serbs, but after albanians under the turkish ottoman rule switched religion to islam, the local serbs were the only ones visiting these churches and restored them and made them their own.
		Prizren is a very special town in that region, our generations know all three languages (serbo-croatian, albaninan and turkish).
	www.gadling.com /2006/07/29/balkan-odyssey-part-12 (3016 words)

	Roma Oral Histories
		A considerable amount of violence was directed at Prizren’s Roma by the KLA; detention centers were created where minorities and Albanians considered to be collaborators were tortured, and often killed.
		Prizren minorities now face the least amount of security and movement restrictions in Kosovo- with the exception of resident Serbs.
		Prizren has a well-developed middle class; it is a city built on commerce.
	www.csdbalkans.org /roma/prizren.shtml (459 words)

	Prizren Kosova
		The WEI Campaign in Prizren was at its peak in August, 2000 with 170 students and 16 teachers.
		Comments: The church in Prizren is in a city subject to conflicts between the resident Muslims and a few Serbs.
		WEI's school and the church in Prizren suffered loss of some items in their building and are now meeting in homes, appropriately.
	www.weiady.org /mission_reports/kosovo.htm (1085 words)

	BBC News \| Inside Kosovo \| Clickable Map
		Serb units forced civilians from the city of Pec to head for Prizren at the same time that Nato bombing started on 24 March.
		Prizren appears to have been the initial destination for refugees fleeing the North before becoming a target for mass expulsions itself on or after Thursday 29 April.
		War crimes investigators are looking for evidence that Kosovo Albanian men were tortured in detention centres in the area.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/inside_kosovo/prizren.stm (165 words)

	Albanian Information - Albanian.com
		Prizren is a town with around 70,000 inhabitants, and it is a true open air museum, one of the most beautiful towns of Kosova.
		From all the cities of Kosova, Prizren has best preserved the architectural physiognomy of the past.
		Left: the house in which the Prizren League was organized.
	www.albanian.com /main/countries/kosova/prizren/index.html (686 words)

	Prizren travel guide - Wikitravel
		Prizren, in Kosovo, is a city of mosques and monasteries dating to the 14th century.
		There is much more going on in Prizren during the Summer than any other time of the year.
		The two most prominent are the Hotel Therande (okay, typically balkan), in the center of town and the Prizreni (not recommended) on the road toward Albania.
	wikitravel.org /en/Prizren (543 words)

	Ottoman Empire Albania Resistance 1878-1881
		The Prizren League worked to gain autonomy for the Albanians and to thwart implementation of the Treaty of San Stefano (an abortive treaty between Russian and the Ottoman Empire, signed on March 3, 1878, which assigned Albanian-populated lands to Serbia, Montenegro, and Bulgaria), but not to create an independent Albania.
		At first the Ottoman authorities supported the Prizren League, but the Sublime Porte pressed the delegates to declare themselves to be first and foremost Ottomans rather than Albanians.
		The Prizren League's leaders and their families were arrested and deported.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/alpha/albania1878.htm (798 words)

	PRIZREN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The old town core of Prizren has survived and is now being carefully preserved.
		At one time, Prizren was the capital of the early Serbian state, and what remains of the walls of the fortress on the hill above the town dates back to those medieval times.
		However, the most notable monument in the town is undoubtedly the former Cathedral Church of Lady Ljeviska, built in 1307 on the foundations of a destroyed Byzantine basilica.
	www.serbia-info.com /ntos/cul_priz.htm (192 words)

	Prizren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Prizren (Albanian Prizren/Prizreni, Serbian: Призрен / Prizren) is a historical city located in Kosovo a Serbian Province under UN administration at 42.23° North, 20.74° East
		They established that Prizren had 60,000 citizens of whome 11,000 were Christian Serbs and 36,000 Moslem Serbs.
		In 9-10 July 1945 the Regional Assembly of Kosovo and Metohija held in Prizren adopted the decision of abolishing the region's autonomy and direct integration into Serbia; although Tito vetoed this decision
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prizren (2134 words)

	Online NewsHour: Prizren after the Bombs -- June 16, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Many of the refugees were heading for Prizren, Kosovo's southernmost city located just 15 miles from the Albanian border, a graceful and historic city where Albania's first independence movement was born more than 100 years ago.
		Prizren has emerged from the recent fighting as a stronghold of the Kosovo Liberation Army.
		They're not going to come anyway, because they're going to come to Prizren, and Prizren is going to swell with many times its normal population before the war started, and people are basically going to be five, six in a room.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june99/refugees_6-16.html (1187 words)

	League of Prizren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The League of Prizren was meant as a political and military organization that would help Albania receive international recognition, though initially as an autonomous region.
		The Albanian resistance was successful enough to alter the borders established by the Great Powers and regain some of the lost lands, however some lands were still ceded to Greece by 1881.
		The Prizren League had 16,000 armed members under its control, who launched a revolution against the Ottoman Empire after the debacle at the Congress of Berlin and the official dissolvement of the League ordered by the Ottomans who feared the League would seek total independence from the empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/League_of_Prizren (549 words)

	UN Fears Ethnic Purge of Kosovo's Prizren. Reuters/Associated Press,(29 April 1999)
		The refugees, most from the Prizren area in the southwest of the Serbian province, were crossing in cars, tractors and on foot.
		One resident of Prizren who crossed at 1200 GMT told Reuters he fled because all his neighbors appeared to be going.
		In the capital Tirana, aid officials said seven new camps may be set up to cope with an influx that threatens to overwhelm the hastily-arranged facilities already in place.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Kosovo-Current_News109.htm (648 words)

	Prizren News
		Local news for Prizren continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
		Prizren is a beautiful place and if you have the time you can make a trip to the Serbian monastery in Visoki Decani.
		Posted Jul 29th 2006 7:50AM by Neil Woodburn Filed under: Albania, Serbia/Montenegro After spending a few days in the mountains of northern Albania, it came time to leave the village of Valbona.
	www.topix.net /gr/prizren (337 words)

	bosnia kosovo prizren
		While I was travelling through Bosnia I met an irish traveler who advised me to go to Kosovo, in particular to Prizren, because of his beauty.
		Prizren lies at the bottom of a mountain; the oldest part of the mountain is built on the slope, while the other one, separated by a
		KFOR (Kosovo FORce), it means in Prizren there was a continuos flow of amphibian tanks, jeeps, soldiers and many places in the old town were fenced by barbed wire.
	www.albytravel.com /bosniakosovo-Prizren.htm (427 words)

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