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Pristina Districte

Pristina

Pristina, the capital and largest city of , is not beautiful: it is messy, with centuries-old Ottoman heritage competing with communist designs and post-communist architectural monstrosities.
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  • Type: City with 162,000 residents
  • Description: capital and the largest city of Kosovo
  • Also known as: “Prishtina”, “Prishtinë”, and “Priştina”
Photo: Arbenllapashtica, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kosovo National Library ‘Pjetër Bogdani’ and Kosovo Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Library
Photo: Arianselmani, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Library of Kosovo is the highest library institution in established by the Assembly and is located in Pristina. The mission of the library is to collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual heritage of Kosovo.

Public building
Photo: Bdx, CC0.
The Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts is the national academy of .

Theater building
Photo: Gentagecaj, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Theatre of Kosovo was founded in 1946 in the city of , . It is the highest ranked theatre institution in the country, with the largest number of productions.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bregu i Diellit and Matiçan.

Suburb
also informally known as Kodra e Diellit, is a district of Pristina, the capital of .

Village
is a village in Pristina municipality.

Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Pristina

Latitude
42.6639° or 42° 39′ 50″ north
Longitude
21.1641° or 21° 9′ 51″ east
Population
162,000
Elevation
597 metres (1,959 feet)
IATA airport code
PRN
United Nations Location Code
RS PRN
Open location code
8GJ3M577+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2885136501
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
786714
Wiki­data ID
Q25270
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Pristina” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pristina”
  • Albanian: “Prishtina”
  • Albanian: “Prishtinë”
  • Amharic: “ፕርሽቲና”
  • Arabic: “برشتين”
  • Arabic: “برشتينة”
  • Arabic: “بريشتينا”
  • Aragonese: “Pristina”
  • Armenian: “Պրիշտինա”
  • Asturian: “Prishtina”
  • Asturian: “Prishtinë”
  • Asturian: “Priština”
  • Asturian: “Prístina”
  • Asturian: “Prixtina”
  • Azerbaijani: “Priştina”
  • Bashkir: “Приштина”
  • Basque: “Prishtina”
  • Basque: “Prishtinë”
  • Basque: “Pristina”
  • Basque: “Priština”
  • Belarusian: “Прышціна”
  • Belarusian: “Сталіца Косава”
  • Bengali: “প্রিস্টিনা”
  • Betawi: “Pristinah”
  • Bosnian: “Pristina”
  • Bosnian: “Priština”
  • Breton: “Prishtina”
  • Breton: “Pristina”
  • Breton: “Priština”
  • Bulgarian: “Прищина”
  • Bulgarian: “Прищинско”
  • Catalan: “Prishtina”
  • Catalan: “Pristina”
  • Catalan: “Priština”
  • Cebuano: “Pristina”
  • Central Bikol: “Pristina”
  • Central Kurdish: “پرشتینا”
  • Chechen: “Приштина”
  • Chinese: “Priština”
  • Chinese: “普里什蒂納”
  • Chinese: “普里什蒂纳 / 普里斯提納”
  • Chinese: “普里什蒂纳”
  • Chinese: “普里斯提納”
  • Cornish: “Prishtina”
  • Croatian: “Prishtinë”
  • Croatian: “Priština”
  • Czech: “Prishtina”
  • Czech: “Prishtinë”
  • Czech: “Priština”
  • Danish: “Prishtina”
  • Danish: “Prishtinë”
  • Danish: “Pristina”
  • Danish: “Priština”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pristina”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Priştina”
  • Dutch: “Prishtina”
  • Dutch: “Prishtine”
  • Dutch: “Prishtinë”
  • Dutch: “Prisjtina”
  • Dutch: “Pristina”
  • Dutch: “Priština”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريشتينا”
  • Esperanto: “Priština”
  • Esperanto: “Priŝtino”
  • Estonian: “Prishtina”
  • Estonian: “Priština”
  • Finnish: “Prishtina”
  • Finnish: “Pristina”
  • Finnish: “Priština”
  • French: “Prishtina”
  • French: “Prishtinë”
  • French: “Pristina”
  • French: “Priština”
  • French: “Quartier de Dardania”
  • Galician: “Pristina”
  • Galician: “Priština”
  • Georgian: “პრიშტინა”
  • German: “Prischtina”
  • German: “Prishtina”
  • German: “Prishtine”
  • German: “Prishtinë”
  • German: “Pristina”
  • Greek: “Πριστίνα”
  • Greek: “Πρίστινα”
  • Hebrew: “פרישטינה”
  • Hungarian: “Prishtina”
  • Hungarian: “Prishtinë”
  • Hungarian: “Pristina”
  • Hungarian: “Priština”
  • Icelandic: “Pristína”
  • Ido: “Prishtina”
  • Indonesian: “Pristina”
  • Indonesian: “Priština”
  • Interlingua: “Pristina”
  • Interlingue: “Priština”
  • Irish: “Prishtina”
  • Irish: “Prishtinë”
  • Irish: “Pristine”
  • Italian: “Prishtina”
  • Italian: “Prishtinë”
  • Italian: “Pristina”
  • Italian: “Priština”
  • Japanese: “プリシュティナ”
  • Javanese: “Pristina”
  • Javanese: “Priština”
  • Kabyle: “Pristina”
  • Kazakh: “Приштина”
  • Komering: “Pristina”
  • Korean: “프리슈티나”
  • Korean: “프리슈티너”
  • Korean: “프리스티나”
  • Kotava: “Prishtina”
  • Kurdish: “Priştîna”
  • Latin: “Pristina”
  • Latvian: “Pristina”
  • Latvian: “Priština”
  • Limburgan: “Pristina”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pristina”
  • Lithuanian: “Priština”
  • Low German: “Priština”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Priština”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pristina”
  • Macedonian: “Приштина”
  • Malagasy: “Pristina”
  • Malay: “Pristina”
  • Malay: “Priština”
  • Malayalam: “പ്രിസ്റ്റിന”
  • Maltese: “Prixtina”
  • Manx: “Prishtina”
  • Manx: “Pristina”
  • Manx: “Priština”
  • Marathi: “प्रिस्टिना”
  • Mazanderani: “پریشتینا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Priština”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Prishtinë”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Priština”
  • Minangkabau: “Pristina”
  • Mongolian: “Приштина”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پريستينا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پريشتينا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pristina”
  • Northern Frisian: “Priština”
  • Northern Luri: “پریشتینا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prishtina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prishtinë”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pristina”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Priština”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Priştine”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Priștine”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prishtina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prishtine”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prishtinë”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pristina”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Priština”
  • Norwegian: “Prishtina”
  • Norwegian: “Priština”
  • Novial: “Pristina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prishtina”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prishtinë”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Priština”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Pristford”
  • Ossetian: “Приштинæ”
  • Ossetian: “Приштина”
  • Panjabi: “ਪ੍ਰਿਸ਼ਤੀਨਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Pristina”
  • Persian: “پرشتینه”
  • Persian: “پریشتینا”
  • Piemontese: “Prìstina”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Prishtina”
  • Polish: “Priština”
  • Polish: “Prisztina”
  • Portuguese: “Prishtinë”
  • Portuguese: “Pristina”
  • Portuguese: “Priština”
  • Pushto: “پریشتینا”
  • Romanian: “Pristina”
  • Romanian: “Priština”
  • Romanian: “Priștina”
  • Russian: “Приштина (город)”
  • Russian: “Приштина”
  • Russian: “столица Косова”
  • Samoan: “Pristina”
  • Samogitian: “Prėštėna”
  • Sardinian: “Pristina”
  • Scots: “Pristina”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Prishtina”
  • Serbian: “Prishtina”
  • Serbian: “Prishtinë”
  • Serbian: “Priština”
  • Serbian: “Приштина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prishtinë”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Priština”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Приштина”
  • Shona: “Pristina”
  • Sicilian: “Pristina”
  • Silesian: “Prisztina”
  • Sindhi: “پرسٽينا”
  • Slovak: “Prishtinë”
  • Slovak: “Priština”
  • Slovenian: “Prishtina”
  • Slovenian: “Prishtinë”
  • Slovenian: “Priština”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پریشتینا”
  • Spanish: “Prishtina”
  • Spanish: “Prishtine”
  • Spanish: “Prishtinë”
  • Spanish: “Pristina”
  • Spanish: “Priština”
  • Spanish: “Prístina”
  • Swahili: “Prishtina”
  • Swedish: “Prischtina”
  • Swedish: “Prishtina”
  • Swedish: “Prishtine”
  • Swedish: “Prishtinë”
  • Swedish: “Prisjtina”
  • Swedish: “Pristina”
  • Swedish: “Priština”
  • Swiss German: “Pristina”
  • Talysh: “Priština”
  • Talysh: “Priştina”
  • Tamil: “பிரிஸ்டினா”
  • Tatar: “Приштина”
  • Thai: “Pristina”
  • Thai: “พริชตีนา”
  • Thai: “พริสตีนา”
  • Tibetan: “པི་རི་སི་ཊི་ན་”
  • Tibetan: “པི་རི་སི་ཊི་ན།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pristina”
  • Turkish: “Pazar-ı Priştine”
  • Turkish: “Piriştina”
  • Turkish: “Prishtina”
  • Turkish: “Pristina”
  • Turkish: “Priština”
  • Turkish: “Priştina”
  • Turkish: “Priştine”
  • Udmurt: “Приштина”
  • Ukrainian: “Приштина”
  • Ukrainian: “Пріштіна”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Priština”
  • Urdu: “Pristina”
  • Urdu: “پرشتینہ”
  • Urdu: “پریشتینا”
  • Uzbek: “Prishtina”
  • Venetian: “Pristina”
  • Veps: “Prištin”
  • Vietnamese: “Prishtina”
  • Vietnamese: “Pristina”
  • Vietnamese: “Priština”
  • Vlaams: “Pristina”
  • Vlax Romani: “Pristina”
  • Volapük: “Prijtina”
  • Volapük: “Priština”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pristina”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Priština”
  • Welsh: “Prishtina”
  • Welsh: “Pristina”
  • Welsh: “Priština”
  • Western Armenian: “Փրիշթինա”
  • Western Frisian: “Pristina”
  • Western Panjabi: “پرسٹینا”
  • Western Panjabi: “پریسٹینا”
  • Western Panjabi: “پریسٹینہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “普里什蒂纳”
  • Yakut: “Приштина”
  • Yoruba: “Pristina”
  • Yue Chinese: “普里什蒂納”
  • Zulu: “i-Pristina”
  • “Prėštėna”
  • “Prixtina”

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