The Prizren District was a district

Districts of Serbia

Districts , officially called administrative districts are the administrative units of Serbia, comprising several municipalities and/or cities each. They are defined by the Government of Serbia's Enactment of 29 January 1992. Districts are regional centers of state authority and they do not have...

 in Kosovo between 1990 and 1999. It was located in the southern part of Kosovo i Metohija

Kosovo

Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...

. It had a population of 376,085. Seat of the District was in the city of Prizren

Prizren

Prizren is a historical city located in southern Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.The city has a population of around 131,247 , mostly Albanians...

. 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.

Municipalities

It included the municipalities of:

• Suva Reka
• Orahovac
  Orahovac
  Orahovac is a town and municipality in western Kosovo, in the District of Đakovica.-Name:Its Serbian name stems from the Serbian word orah , meaning "walnut"....
  
  
• Prizren
  Prizren
  Prizren is a historical city located in southern Kosovo. It is the administrative center of the eponymous municipality and district.The city has a population of around 131,247 , mostly Albanians...
  
  
• Gora
  Gora (region)
  Gora is a geographical region in southern Serbia and northeastern Albania, inhabited by Albanians and a Gorani minority. The name "Gora" is a Slavic word for "mountain" or "forest"....
  
  
• Opolje
  Opolje
  Opolje or Opoja is northern region of the municipality of Dragaš in the southern most part of Kosovo with Gora being the southern one.Opolje comprises 19 villages with a population of 30.000 . Its population is almost exclusively of Albanian ethnicity, whereas the population of Gora is Gorani...
  
  

Culture and history

The Church of the Our Lady of Ljeviš

Our Lady of Ljeviš

Our Lady of Ljeviš is a 12th-century Serbian Orthodox Church in the town of Prizren, located in southern Serbia - Kosovo and Metohija. It was converted to a mosque during the Ottoman Empire and then back into an Orthodox Church in the early 20th century....

, 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 Holy Salvation from 1348, the Church of St. Nicholas from 1332, the Church of Prince Marko

Prince Marko

Marko Mrnjavčević was de jure the Serbian king from 1371 to 1395, while de facto he ruled only over a territory in western Macedonia centered on the town of Prilep...

 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

Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman EmpireIt was usually referred to as the "Ottoman Empire", the "Turkish Empire", the "Ottoman Caliphate" or more commonly "Turkey" by its contemporaries...

 rule, mosques, hammam

Hammam

A Turkish bath is the Turkish variant of a steam bath, sauna or Russian Bath, distinguished by a focus on water, as distinct from ambient steam....

s, 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.