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With the altitude of 2,660 metres (8,727 feet), [1] [2] it is the highest mountain of Kosovo, and also the highest mountain of Serbia according to the view held by the government of Serbia. In some older sources, the altitude was stated to be 2,658 metres, [ 8 ] [ 5 ] [ 9 ] but newer measurements showed that the true altitude is 2 metres higher.
Map of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (Serbian: Косово и Метохиja, romanized: Kosovo i Metohija; Albanian: Kosova dhe Metohia), commonly known as Kosovo (Serbian: Косово; Albanian: Kosova) and abbreviated to Kosmet (from Kosovo and Metohija; Serbian: Космет) or KiM (Serbian: КиМ), is an autonomous ...
Between 1246 and 1255, Stefan Uroš I had reported Albanian toponyms in the Drenica valley. A chrysobull of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Dušan that was given to the Monastery of Saint Mihail and Gavril in Prizren between the years of 1348–1353 states the presence of Albanians in the Plains of Dukagjin, the vicinity of Prizren and in the villages of Drenica.
Today in Kosovo, the region is part of Dragash municipality that includes the Albanian inhabited Opoja region. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] In Albania, the Gora region is located in Kukës County [ 1 ] and parts of it are subdivided in the Shishtavec and Zapod territorial units.
Metohija (Serbian Cyrillic: Метохија, pronounced), also known in Albanian as Dukagjin, [a] (Albanian: Rrafshi i Dukagjinit, pronounced [ˈrafʃi i dukaˈɟinit]) is a large basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo.
During the 1998-1999 conflict, more than a third of Kosovo's 600 mosques were damaged or destroyed. [16] Kosovo's Islamic heritage suffered devastating events during the "ethnic cleansing" operations. Qurans were found with pages ripped out and spread with feces, and valuable collections of Islamic manuscripts were burned. [16]
Llapusha is one of the parts of Metohija. [1] It is located between Podgor, Podrimlje, Drenica and Llapushnik. [2] It is a hilly region that includes the landscape on the left riverbank of White Drin, from Podgor to the watershed of Mirusha and Klina; spreading from the western rim of southern Drenica, on the left side of the White Drin. [1]
Kosovo, [a] officially the Republic of Kosovo, [b] is a country in Southeast Europe with partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast. It covers an area of 10,887 km 2 (4,203 sq mi) and has a population of approximately 1.6 ...