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Reka E Keqe
Reka e Keqe is an ethnographic subregion of the greater Reka region of the Dukagjini Plain of western Kosovo, sitting along the border with Albania and covering a number of villages between Gjakova and Junik. It is inhabited almost exclusively by Albanians. Geography Reka e Keqe, which translates to "''Bad River''" in Albanian language, Albanian, is a ravine formed by three rivers – the Carragojë, Erenik and Trava - in the northwest of the municipality of Gjakova. The ravine extends to the southern borders of Deçan, and runs 25km southeast towards the town of Gjakova itself. It is situated some 10-15km from the Albanian border. The region derives its name from its geographical position by these rivers. The word ''Reka'' itself is a Slavic word, meaning "river". Reka e Keqe is a smaller subregion of the greater Reka region of the Dukagjini Plain, which consists of around 80 villages known for their resistance against occupying forces. Reka e Keqe consists of numerous rural area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dukagjini Plain
Metohija (), also known in Albanian as Dukagjini, (, ) is a large basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo. The region covers 35% (3,891 km2) of Kosovo's total area. According to the 2024 census, the population of the region is 570,147. Names The name ''Metohija'' derives from the Greek word (''metóchia''; singular , '' metóchion''), meaning "monastic estates" – a reference to the large number of villages and estates in the region that were owned by the Serbian Orthodox monasteries and Mount Athos during the Middle Ages. In Albanian the area is called ''Rrafshi i Dukagjinit'' and means "the plateau of Dukagjin", as the toponym (in Albanian) took the name of the Dukagjini family who ruled a large part of Dukagjini during the 14th-15th centuries. According to Jahja Drançolli, a professor at the University of Pristina, the oldest name for the region is ''Dukagjin Plain'' () or simply Dukagjin and the region was under the Sanj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shishman, Gjakova
Shishman is a village in the District of Gjakova, in Kosovo Kosovo, officially the Republic of Kosovo, is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe with International recognition of Kosovo, partial diplomatic recognition. It is bordered by Albania to the southwest, Montenegro to the west, Serbia to the .... Shishman is situated nearby to the villages Duzhnjë and Smolicë. History The village was mentioned in the Ottoman defter of 1485 with 20 households. The Ottoman defters indicate that the village was inhabited by an Albanian population during the 15th century; the name of the inhabitants were mainly Albanian with Slavic and Christian anthroponomy. According to a 23 May 1999 Kosovapress report, Serbian troops killed five Kosovar civilians in the village on 26 April 1999. References {{Reflist Villages in Gjakova ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nahiya
A nāḥiyah ( , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiyeh, nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division while in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Xinjiang, and the former administrative divisions of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Empire, where it was also called a ''bucak (administrative unit), bucak'', it is a third-level or lower division. It can constitute a division of a ''qadaa'', ''mintaqah'' or other such district-type division and is sometimes translated as "subdistrict". Ottoman Empire The nahiye () was an administrative territorial entity of the Ottoman Empire, smaller than a . The head was a (governor) who was appointed by the Pasha. The was a subdivision of a Selçuk Akşin Somel. "Kazâ". ''The A to Z of the Ottoman Empire''. Volume 152 of A to Z Guides. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. p. 151. and corresponded roughly to a city w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Orthodoxy In Albania
Eastern Orthodoxy arrived in the areas of Illyrii proprie dicti or Principality of Arbanon during the period of Byzantine Empire. Those areas fell under the Ottoman Empire during the late medieval times and Eastern Orthodoxy underwent deep sociopolitical difficulties that lasted until the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Between 1913 and until the start of WWII under the newly recognized state of Albania, Eastern Orthodoxy saw a revival and in the 1937 the Autocephaly after a short Eastern Orthodoxy schism and contestation was recognized. Decades of persecution under the Communist state atheism, which started in 1967 and officially ended in December 1990, greatly weakened all religions and their practices especially Christians of Albania. The post-communist period and the lifting of legal and other government restrictions on religion allowed Orthodoxy to revive through institutions and enabled the development of new infrastructure, literature, educational facilities, international tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catholic Church In Kosovo
The Catholic Church in Kosovo () has a number of approximately 246,000 members in a region of roughly 1.5 million people. Another 60,000 (according to the 2011 census) Kosovan Catholics are outside the region, mainly for work. They are mainly ethnic Albanians, with a few Croats. The Diocese of Prizren and Pristina (until 5 September 2018, an Apostolic Administration of Prizren) is the ecclesiastical district of the Catholic Church in Kosovo. It is centered in the city of Prizren. Bishop Dodë Gjergji serves as diocesan bishop . , the Holy See does not recognise Kosovo as a sovereign state (see also Holy See's reaction to the 2008 Kosovo declaration of independence). However, as stated by Bishop Dodë Gjergji, the Kosovan prelate of the Diocese of Prizren-Pristina, in an interview with RTV Dukagjini on December 12, 2020, “The Vatican has two segments: the Vatican as the seat of the Catholic Church and as a state. Pope Francis has raised our church from the Church of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavicisation
Slavicisation or Slavicization, is the acculturation of something non-Slavic into a Slavic culture, cuisine, region, or nation. The process can either be voluntary or applied through varying degrees of pressure. The term can also refer to the historical Slavic migrations to Southeastern Europe which gradually Slavicized large areas previously inhabited by other ethnic peoples. In northern Russia, there was also mass Slavicization of Finnic and Baltic population in the 9th-10th centuries. After historic ethnogenesis and distinct nationalisation, ten main subsets of the process apply in modern times: * Belarusization * Bosniakisation * Bulgarisation * Croatisation * Czechization * Macedonization * Polonization * Russification * Serbianisation * Slovakization * Ukrainization See also * Hellenization * Pan-Slavism Pan-Slavism, a movement that took shape in the mid-19th century, is the political ideology concerned with promoting integrity and unity for the Slavic peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visoki Dečani
The Visoki Dečani Monastery is a medieval Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery located near Deçan, Kosovo. It was founded in the first half of the 14th century by Stefan Dečanski, List of Serbian monarchs, King of Serbia. Dečani is by far the largest medieval church in the Balkans and one of the most complex architectural achievements of the 14th century. Its architectural style, which emerged in Kingdom of Serbia (1217–1346), Kingdom of Serbia at the end of the 12th century, combines Orthodox traditions with Romanesque architecture, Romanesque influences. The monastery reflects the cultural exchange between the Eastern Europe, East and Western Europe, West, representing Serbia's historical position during the medieval period. The Dečani church contains Fresco, frescos that show defining moments from both Serbian history and Christian tradition. It also features the largest preserved collection of Byzantine art, Byzantine painting. For centuries, Dečani has played a key r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dečani Chrysobulls
The Dečani chrysobulls ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Дечанске хрисовуље, Dečanske hrisovulje) alternatively known as the Dečani charters ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Дечанске повеље, Dečanske povelje) are chrysobulls dating to 1330–1345 that constitute the founding charters issued by the Serbian King Stefan Dečanski after the building of the monastery of Visoki Dečani was completed, in 1330. In particular, the charters contain a detailed list of landholdings and tax farming rights which the monastery held over settlements and communities in the Kingdom of Serbia, in an area which spanned from present-day southern Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro and parts of northern Albania. Content The chrysobulls consist in three charters which were written at different times. The first one, a parchment of , was issued by Stefan Dečanski in 1330 and was written in the royal court of Nerodimlja, in present-day southern Kosovo. It contains an introductory part in Serbian Church Slavonic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
župa
A župa, or zhupa, is a historical type of administrative division in Southeast Europe and Central Europe, that originated in medieval South Slavs, South Slavic culture, commonly translated as "county" or "parish". It was mentioned for the first time in the eighth century and was initially used by the South Slavs, South and West Slavs, denoting various territorial units of which the leader was the župan. In modern Serbo-Croatian, the term also refers to an ecclesiastical parish, in Slovene language, Slovene likewise for ''župnija'', while the related ''županija'' is used in Croatia for lower administrative subdivisions, and likewise by Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina (as a synonym for ''kanton''). Etymology The word ''župa'' or ' (Slovak language, Slovak and Czech language, Czech: ; Polish language, Polish: ; Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian language, Bulgarian: ; adopted into and rendered in Greek language, Greek as (, "land ruled by a župan")), is derived from Slavic lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Serbia (1217–1346)
The Kingdom of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Краљевина Србија, Kraljevina Srbija, separator=" / ", or the Serbian Kingdom ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српско краљевство, Srpsko kraljevstvo, separator=" / ", link=no), also known as Kingdom of Serbs ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Краљевина Срба, Kraljevina Srba, separator=" / "); ; , also known by historical Endonym and exonym, exonym Raška (region), Rascia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рашка, Raška, separator=" / ", link=no), was a medieval Serbian kingdom in Southern Europe comprising most of what is today Serbia (excluding Vojvodina), Kosovo, and Montenegro, as well as southeastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, parts of coastal Croatia south of the Neretva river (excluding Dubrovnik), Albania north of the Drin River, North Macedonia, and a small part of western Bulgaria. The medieval Kingdom of Serbia existed from 1217 to 1346 and was ruled by the Nemanjić dynasty. The Grand Principality of Serbia was elevated with the regal corona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottoman Kosovo
Kosovo was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1455 to 1913, originally as part of the eyalet of Rumelia, and from 1864 as a separate Kosovo vilayet. During this period several administrative districts (known as ''sanjaks'' ("banners" or districts) each ruled by a ''sanjakbey'' (roughly equivalent to "district lord") have included parts of the territory as parts of their territories. History After the battle of Kosovo in 1389, the rule of the Serbian Empire faded dramatically in the region. Seventy years passed after the Battle of Kosovo before the entire region fell under full Ottoman control. Their hold on Kosovo was gradually established: a Turkish garrison was deployed in Zvečan in 1399 to protect the north, and in 1423, an Ottoman court was set up in Pristina while customs officials managed the road linking Pristina and Novi Pazar. The conquest was only considered complete in 1455 when the mining town of Novo Brdo surrendered to Sultan Mehmet after a 40-day siege. 17th ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
