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The First Albanian School in Pristina is a cultural heritage monument in Pristina, Kosovo, and one of the oldest intact buildings in the entire city. [ 1 ] History and description
About 3/4 were Christian and 1/4 Muslim. [29] In the 15th century the toponym Arnaut was recorded in the town, which indicates an Albanian presence. [ 30 ] The 1487 defter recorded 412 Christian and 94 Muslim households in Pristina, which at the time was administratively part of the Sanjak of Viçitrina . [ 27 ]
The airport was originally built as Slatina Air Base, containing the second-largest military underground hangar complex in Yugoslavia. [citation needed]From 12 to 26 June 1999, there was a brief but tense stand-off between NATO and the Russian Kosovo Force in which Russian troops possessed the airport.
Goddess on the Throne. As the capital city of Kosovo, Pristina is the heart of the cultural and artistic development of all Albanians that live in Kosovo.The department of cultural affairs is just one of the segments that arranges the cultural events, which make Pristina one of the cities with the most emphasized cultural and artistic traditions.
On 8 March 1994, the Serbian police enter the building and dragged the employees outside, beaten and covered in blood. [1] Nevertheless, the work continued in private establishments, until 1 April 1998, when an Albanian-Serbian agreement was reached with some international intermediation, and the building was restored to the institute.
As a result of The League of Communists of Kosovo requesting more self-governance for their region, large-scale protests arose in Kosovo during November 1968, affecting the founding of the university in 1969–70. The university's first faculties were those of philosophy, medicine, law and engineering.
Pristina Municipality (Albanian: Komuna e Prishtinës; Serbian: Opstina Pristina, is a municipality in the district of Priština in Kosovo. The municipality has a population of 198,897 people within an area of 523.13 km 2 (201.98 sq mi).
The Pristina Bus Station was established in 1977 by the municipal government, but construction did not begin until 1982. Completed in 1983, it was administered by the Kosovo Trust Agency (Albanian: Agjencia Kosovare e Mirëbesimit) from the Kosovo War until 2015, when the Pristina Municipality took back control. [6]