The Prizren District (Albanian: Distrikti i Prizrenit; Serbian: Призренски округ/Prizrenski okrug, pronounced [prîzrenskiː ôkruːɡ]) was a district in southern Kosovo and Metohija between 1990 and 1999. It had a population of 376,085. The seat of the district was in the city of Prizren.

Prizrenski okrug Призренски округ
District of Serbia
Location of Prizren District (Serbia) in Serbia
Country	Serbia
Capital	Prizren
Population  (2002 census)
• Total	376,085
ISO 3166 code	RS-27
Municipalities	5

Municipalities

It included the municipalities of:

• Suva Reka
• Orahovac
• Prizren
• Gora
• Opolje

Culture and history

The Church of Our Lady of Ljeviš, in Prizren, is the endowment of King Milutin, along with the Archbishop Sava III. It was built in 1307.

Prizren is also distinguished by other churches, such as: the Church of Holy Salvation (est. 1348), the Church of St. Nicholas (est. 1332), the Church of Prince Marko (est. 1371), and Assembly Church of St. George from the second half of the 19th century.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, during Ottoman rule, mosques, hammams, and madrasas flowered throughout Prizren and its surroundings. The Mosque of Bajrakli Gazi Mehmed-Pasha is the earliest establishment of Islamic architecture in Prizren. It was built in 1561, and still safeguards books in Arabic and Turkish to this day, including a Quran from 1312.

References

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