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Prizren District

Prizren

Prizren, in , is a charming city of mosques and monasteries dating back to the 14th century. Happily spared from both the "destroy the old, build the new" drive of the communists during the early years of their rule in Yugoslavia, as well as the ethnic…
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  • Type: City with 85,100 residents
  • Description: city in Kosovo
  • Also known as: “Perzerin”
Photo: Bartalzo, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady of Ljeviš and Sinan Pasha Mosque.

Church
Photo: Mendeljejev, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox church in the town of Prizren, in southern . Since 2006, the church is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site named Medieval Monuments in Kosovo.

Mosque
Photo: Photo Balkan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an Ottoman-era in the city of Prizren, built by the Ottoman Albanian pasha Sofi Sinan in 1615. The mosque overlooks the main street of Prizren and is a dominant feature in the town's skyline.

Photo: Mladifilozof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hilltop fortification in Prizren in . It overlooks the Prizren River which flows through Prizren, which developed around the fortress.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pousko and Lubizhdë.

Village
Photo: Berath2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Village
is a village in the Prizren municipality in southern Kosovo.

Prizren

Latitude
42.213° or 42° 12′ 47″ north
Longitude
20.7363° or 20° 44′ 11″ east
Population
85,100
Elevation
413 metres (1,355 feet)
Open location code
8GJ26P7P+6G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150906142
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
786712
Wiki­data ID
Q200061
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Prizren” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Përzeren”
  • Albanian: “Prizeren”
  • Albanian: “Prizren”
  • Albanian: “Prizrenë”
  • Albanian: “Prizreni”
  • Arabic: “برزرين”
  • Arabic: “بريزرن”
  • Armenian: “Պրիզրեն”
  • Asturian: “Prizren”
  • Azerbaijani: “Prizren”
  • Bashkir: “Призрен”
  • Basque: “Prizren”
  • Belarusian: “Прызран”
  • Belarusian: “Прызрэн”
  • Bengali: “প্রিজরেন”
  • Bosnian: “Prizren”
  • Breton: “Prizren”
  • Bulgarian: “Призрен”
  • Bulgarian: “Призренско”
  • Catalan: “Prizren”
  • Catalan: “Prizreni”
  • Cebuano: “Prizren”
  • Chinese: “普里兹伦”
  • Chinese: “普里茲倫”
  • Church Slavic: “Призрѣнь”
  • Church Slavic: “Приꙁрѣнь”
  • Croatian: “Prizren”
  • Czech: “Prizren”
  • Danish: “Prizren”
  • Dutch: “Prizre”
  • Dutch: “Prizren”
  • Dutch: “Prizreni”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريزرن”
  • Esperanto: “Prizren”
  • Estonian: “Prizren”
  • Finnish: “Prizren”
  • Finnish: “Prizreni”
  • French: “Prizren”
  • French: “Theranda”
  • Galician: “Prizren”
  • German: “Prizren”
  • Greek: “Πρίζρεν”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રિઝ્રેન”
  • Hebrew: “פריזרן”
  • Hindi: “प्रिजरेन”
  • Hungarian: “Prizren”
  • Hungarian: “Prizreni”
  • Indonesian: “Prizren”
  • Interlingue: “Prizren”
  • Irish: “Prizren”
  • Italian: “Prizren”
  • Italian: “Prizreni”
  • Japanese: “プリズレン”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರಿಝ್ರೆನ್”
  • Korean: “프리즈렌”
  • Latvian: “Prizren”
  • Latvian: “Prizrena”
  • Latvian: “Prizreni”
  • Lithuanian: “Prizrenas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Prizren”
  • Macedonian: “Призрен”
  • Malay: “Prizren”
  • Marathi: “प्रीझरें”
  • Moksha: “Призрэн”
  • Northern Frisian: “Prizren”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prizren”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prizren”
  • Norwegian: “Prizren”
  • Persian: “پریزرن”
  • Polish: “Prizren”
  • Portuguese: “Prizren”
  • Romanian: “Prizren”
  • Russian: “Призрен”
  • Scots: “Prizren”
  • Serbian: “Prizren”
  • Serbian: “Призрен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prizren”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Призрен”
  • Silesian: “Prizren”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රිස්රන්”
  • Slovak: “Prizren”
  • Slovenian: “Prizren”
  • Spanish: “Prizren”
  • Swedish: “Prisren”
  • Swedish: “Prizren”
  • Swedish: “Prizrendi”
  • Tamil: “ப்ரிஸ்ரென்”
  • Tatar: “Призрен”
  • Telugu: “ప్రైజరేన్”
  • Thai: “ปริซเร็น”
  • Thai: “พริสเรน”
  • Turkish: “Prizren”
  • Ukrainian: “Призрен”
  • Ukrainian: “Прізрен”
  • Urdu: “پرزرین”
  • Urdu: “پریزرین”
  • Uzbek: “Prizren”
  • Vietnamese: “Prizren”
  • Volapük: “Prizren”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Prizren”
  • Welsh: “Prizren”
  • Wu Chinese: “普里兹伦”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Prizren”. Photo: Berath2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.