Prizren District

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Note: this is article about former district of the Serbian government in Kosovo. For the current UNMIK district, see District of Prizreni/Prizren article.

**Prizren District**
Prizren District within Kosovo (1990-1999)
Capital	Prizren
Area – Total – % water	? n/a
Population – Total – Density	376,085 ?

The Prizren District (Albanian: Distrikti i Prizrenit, Serbian: Prizrenski okrug or Призренски округ ) was a district in Kosovo between 1990 and 1999. It was located in the southern part of Kosovo. It had a population of 376,085. Seat of the District was in the city of Prizren. From one point of view of the Serbian government the district de jure still exist, despite the fact that Serbian government accepted civil UN administration over Kosovo.

1 Municipalities
2 Culture and history
3 Economy
4 See also

[edit] Municipalities

It included the municipalities of:

[edit] Culture and history

The Church of the Our Lady of Ljeviš, 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.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, at the period of Ottoman rule, mosques, hammams, and medreses flowered throughout Prizren and its vicinity. The Mosque of Bajrakli Gazi Mehmed-Pasha is the earliest monument of Islamic architecture in Prizren. It was built in 1561, and still today it safeguards books in Arab and Turkish, including a Koran from 1312.