31 Facts About Prizren

Prizren is the second most populous city and municipality of Kosovo and seat of the eponymous municipality and district.

Prizren is constitutionally designated as the historical capital of the country.

Archaeological excavations in Prizren Fortress indicate that its fortress area has seen habitation and use since the Bronze Age.

Prizren has been traditionally identified with the settlement of Theranda in Roman Dardania, although other locations have been suggested in recent research.

Prizren first developed in the area below the fortress which overlooks the Bistrica river on its left bank.

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Prizren has been traditionally identified with Theranda, a town of the Roman era.

Archaeological research has shown that the site of the Prizren Fortress has had several eras of habitation since prehistoric times.

Konstantin Jirecek concluded, from the correspondence of archbishop Demetrios of Ohrid, that Prizren was the northeasternmost area of Albanian settlement prior to the Slavic expansion that began in the 6th century.

In 1072, the leaders of the Bulgarian Uprising of Georgi Voiteh traveled from their center in Skopje in the area of Prizren and held a meeting in which they invited Mihailo Vojislavljevic of Duklja to send them assistance.

Dalassenos Doukas, dux of Bulgaria was sent against the combined forced but was defeated near Prizren, which was extensively plundered by the Serbian army after the battle.

Catholic church retained some influence in the area; 14th-century documents refer to a catholic church in Prizren, which was the seat of a bishopric between the 1330s and 1380s.

Prizren was the capital of the Sanjak of Prizren, and under new administrative organization of Ottoman Empire it became capital of the Vilayet.

Prizren became one of the larger cities of the Ottomans' Kosovo Province.

Prizren was the cultural and intellectual centre of Ottoman Kosovo.

In 1871, a long Serbian seminary was opened in Prizren, discussing the possible joining of the old Serbia's territories with the Principality of Serbia.

Prizren attachment was part of the Ipek Detachment in the Order of Battle, 19 October 1912 in the First Balkan War.

In January 1914 the Austro-Hungarian consul based in Prizren conducted a detailed report on living conditions in the city.

Thirty of the thirty-two Mosques in Prizren had been turned into hay barns, ammunition stores and military barracks.

The "Prizren trial" became something of a cause celebre after it emerged that a number of leading Yugoslav Communists had allegedly had contacts with the accused.

On 17 March 2004, during the Unrest in Kosovo some Serb cultural monuments in Prizren were damaged, burned or destroyed, including Orthodox Serb churches, such as Our Lady of Ljevis from 1307, the Church of Holy Salvation, Church of St George, Church of St George, Church of St Kyriaki, Church of St Nicolas, the Monastery of The Holy Archangels, as well as Prizren's Orthodox seminary of Saint Cyrillus and Methodius.

Municipality of Prizren is still the most culturally and ethnically heterogeneous of Kosovo, retaining communities of Bosniaks, Turks, and Romani in addition to the majority Kosovo Albanian population live in Prizren.

Prizren is located on the foothills of the Sar Mountains in southern Kosovo on the banks of Prizren River.

Prizren has a Oceanic climate as of the Koppen climate classification with an average annual temperature of 10.

Prizren is twinned with Amasya, Balikesir, Berat, Beykoz, Bingen am Rhein, Herceg Novi, Karsiyaka, Kavarna, Kyjov and Osijek.

Madgearu argues that the series of Ottoman defters from 1455 onward showing the "ethnic mosaic" of Serb and Albanian villages in Kosovo shows that Prizren already had significant Albanian Muslim populations.

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Since an early period in its rapid development as an Ottoman city, Prizren had much more Muslims than Catholic or Orthodox inhabitants as in the pre-Ottoman period.

Catholic bishop Pjeter Mazreku noted in 1624 that the Catholics of Prizren were 200, the Serbs 600, and Muslims, almost all of whom were Albanians, numbered 12,000.

Catholic archbishop Marino Bizzi reported in 1610 that Prizren had 8,600 houses, out of which many were Orthodox, and only 30 were Catholic.

Prizren is considered as a museum city with many mosques, churches and old buildings of national importance.

The Fortress of Prizren located above the Prizren River has seen habitation and use throughout different periods since the Bronze Age.

Annual Dokufest International Film Festival held in Prizren is considered among the largest publicly attended film festival in the Balkans.