Kosovo
Pec
Municipality of Peja

Peja

Peja, is a city in northwestern . Peja has a rich cultural and historical inheritance being host to a UNESCO World Heritage Site, access to another one and surrounding by stunning nature.
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  • Type: City with 49,000 residents
  • Description: city in Kosovo
  • Also known as: “Peć” and “Pejë”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Patriarchate of Peć and Pejë.

Monastery
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The Monastery or the Patriarchal Monastery of Peć, is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery located near the city of Peja, . Built in the 13th century, it became the residence of Serbian Archbishops.

Railway station
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is a railway station.

Stadium
The is a multi-use stadium located in Peć, Kosovo. It primarily hosts football matches and serves as the home ground for KF Besa Pejë, a team in the Kosovar Superliga.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Qyshk.

Village
or Ćuška is a village near Peja, in western Kosovo. It is inhabited predominantly by ethnic Albanians.

Peja

Latitude
42.6594° or 42° 39′ 34″ north
Longitude
20.2886° or 20° 17′ 19″ east
Population
49,000
Elevation
550 metres (1,804 feet)
Open location code
8GJ2M75Q+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3075195901
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
787157
Wiki­data ID
Q112657
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Vietnamese—“Peja” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Peja”
  • Albanian: “Pejë”
  • Arabic: “باج”
  • Arabic: “بيخا”
  • Armenian: “Պեչ”
  • Asturian: “Peja”
  • Azerbaijani: “Peç”
  • Belarusian: “Печ (Косава)”
  • Belarusian: “Печ”
  • Belarusian: “Пэч”
  • Bengali: “পেজে”
  • Bosnian: “Peć”
  • Bulgarian: “Печ”
  • Catalan: “Peć”
  • Catalan: “Pejë”
  • Cebuano: “Pec District”
  • Cebuano: “Pejë (kapital sa distrito sa Kosobo)”
  • Chinese: “佩奇”
  • Croatian: “Peć”
  • Czech: “Pec”
  • Czech: “Peć”
  • Czech: “Peja”
  • Danish: “Peć”
  • Danish: “Peja”
  • Danish: “Pejë”
  • Dutch: “Pec”
  • Dutch: “Peć”
  • Dutch: “Peje”
  • Dutch: “Pejë”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيخا”
  • Esperanto: “Peja”
  • Estonian: “Pejë”
  • Finnish: “Peć”
  • Finnish: “Peja”
  • French: “Peć”
  • French: “Peja”
  • French: “Pejë”
  • German: “Peć”
  • German: “Peja”
  • German: “Pejë”
  • Greek: “Ιπέκιο”
  • Greek: “Πέγια”
  • Greek: “Πετς”
  • Gujarati: “પેજે”
  • Hebrew: “פץ‘”
  • Hebrew: “פץ’”
  • Hindi: “पेजे”
  • Hungarian: “Peć”
  • Hungarian: “Peja”
  • Hungarian: “Pejë”
  • Indonesian: “Peć”
  • Indonesian: “Pejë”
  • Irish: “Peć”
  • Italian: “Peć”
  • Italian: “Peja”
  • Italian: “Pejë”
  • Japanese: “ペーチ”
  • Japanese: “ペヤ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆಜೆ”
  • Korean: “페야”
  • Korean: “페치”
  • Latin: “Picaria”
  • Latvian: “Peča”
  • Latvian: “Peja”
  • Lithuanian: “Pečas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Peja”
  • Macedonian: “Пеќ”
  • Malay: “Peje”
  • Marathi: “पेजे”
  • Moksha: “Пэч”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pejë”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peć”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pejë”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peć”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Peja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pejë”
  • Norwegian: “Peja”
  • Norwegian: “Pejë”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Peć”
  • Persian: “پچ”
  • Polish: “Peć”
  • Portuguese: “Peć”
  • Romanian: “Peć”
  • Russian: “Печ (город, Косово)”
  • Russian: “Печ”
  • Serbian: “Peć”
  • Serbian: “Пећ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peć”
  • Silesian: “Peć”
  • Sinhala: “පෙජේ”
  • Slovenian: “Peć”
  • Slovenian: “Peja”
  • Slovenian: “Pejë”
  • Spanish: “Peć”
  • Swedish: “Peć”
  • Swedish: “Peja”
  • Swedish: “Pejë”
  • Tamil: “பீஜே”
  • Tatar: “Печ”
  • Telugu: “పేజే”
  • Thai: “เปเจ”
  • Turkish: “İpek, Kosova”
  • Turkish: “İpek”
  • Ukrainian: “Печ”
  • Urdu: “پیچ، سربیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Peje”
  • “Peć”
  • “Peja”
  • “Pejë”

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