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Istok River
The Istog River is a river originating near the city of Istog, Kosovo, around 560 m in altitude. It is a tributary of the White Drin and joins it near Berkovo, also in Kosovo. The water quality of the 23-km-long river remains, even throughout and is considered the cleanest in the country. References Rivers of Kosovo {{Kosovo-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burimi I Istogut
Istog ( sq-definite, Istogu; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Исток, Istok) or Burim is a List of cities in Kosovo, town and Municipalities of Kosovo, municipality located in the District of Peja of western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the city of Istog has 5,115 inhabitants, while the municipality has 39,289 inhabitants. Based on the population estimates from the Kosovo Agency of Statistics in 2016, the municipality has 39,982 inhabitants. Name The name of the town comes from the version of the Serbian word ''istok'' (variant ''istek''), meaning "well, water source" referring to the springs of the Istočka river (, literally "spring river"), a tributary to the White Drin river. The name of the nearby village of Vrela, one of the largest settlements in the municipality, also means "springs". History The Ottoman ''defter'' (tax registry; census) of 1582 registered the Peja, Ipek nahiyah as having 235 villages, of which Suho Grlo (Suvo Grlo) was located within modern Istog municipali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ura E Zallçit
Ura may refer to: Government and politics *United Red Army, a revolutionary group in Japan *Uganda Revenue Authority * United Reform Action, a party in Montenegro *Urban Renewal Authority, in Hong Kong *Urban Redevelopment Authority, in Singapore Places Settlements * Ura, Anatolia, a port in Anatolia during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age * Ura, Bhutan, a populated place in Bhutan * Ura, Estonia, village in Koonga Parish, Pärnu County, Estonia * Ura, Hungary, a village in the Northern Great Plain, Hungary * Ura, Russia, several rural localities in Russia Rivers * Ura River, Estonia *Ura (Lena), Russia, a Lena tributary * Ura (Yula), Russia, a Yula tributary Languages * Ura language (Papua New Guinea) * Ura language (Vanuatu) *Fungwa language, Nigeria Other uses * Ura (dance), of the Cook Islands *Ura, or uracil Uracil () (nucleoside#List of nucleosides and corresponding nucleobases, symbol U or Ura) is one of the four nucleotide bases in the nucleic acid RNA. The others are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istog
Istog ( sq-definite, Istogu; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Исток, Istok) or Burim is a town and municipality located in the District of Peja of western Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the city of Istog has 5,115 inhabitants, while the municipality has 39,289 inhabitants. Based on the population estimates from the Kosovo Agency of Statistics in 2016, the municipality has 39,982 inhabitants. Name The name of the town comes from the version of the Serbian word ''istok'' (variant ''istek''), meaning "well, water source" referring to the springs of the Istočka river (, literally "spring river"), a tributary to the White Drin river. The name of the nearby village of Vrela, one of the largest settlements in the municipality, also means "springs". History The Ottoman '' defter'' (tax registry; census) of 1582 registered the Ipek nahiyah as having 235 villages, of which Suho Grlo (Suvo Grlo) was located within modern Istog municipality. Suvo Grlo had three bigger '' mahala'' (neighbourhoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 north and east, and North Macedonia to the southeast. It covers an area of and has a population of approximately 1.6 million. Kosovo has a varied terrain, with high plains along with rolling hills and List of mountains in Kosovo, mountains, some of which have an altitude over . Its climate is mainly Continental climate, continental with some Mediterranean climate, Mediterranean and Alpine climate, alpine influences. Kosovo's capital and List of cities and towns in Kosovo#List, most populous city is Pristina; other major cities and urban areas include Prizren, Ferizaj, Gjilan and Peja. Kosovo formed the core territory of the Dardani, an ancient Paleo-Balkanic languages, Paleo-Balkanic people attested in classical sources from the 4th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tributary
A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they flow, drain the surrounding drainage basin of its surface water and groundwater, leading the water out into an ocean, another river, or into an endorheic basin. The Irtysh is a chief tributary of the Ob (river), Ob river and is also the longest tributary river in the world with a length of . The Madeira River is the largest tributary river by volume in the world with an average discharge of . A confluence, where two or more bodies of water meet, usually refers to the joining of tributaries. The opposite to a tributary is a distributary, a river or stream that branches off from and flows away from the main stream. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Drin
The White Drin or White Drim (; , ) is a river in Kosovo and northern Albania, a ca. long headstream of the Drin. Course Kosovo The Kosovo section of the White Drin flows entirely in the semi-karst part of Kosovo, in an arc-shaped -long course. The river originates in the southern slopes of the Zhleb mountain, north of the town of Peja. The river springs near the Bukuroshja e Fjetur Cave. The cave is multi-levelled, not much explored and has a lake inside. The water from the spring was used by the Peja brewery. The stream is originally a sinking river which eventually springs out from the strong well and falls down as a -high waterfall named the White Drin Waterfall near the village of Radac, away from Peja. In 1934, Russian émigré Dimitry Tyapkin projected and constructed a hydroelectric power plant next to the waterfalls which produced electricity for the town. The White Drin first flows to the east, next to the spa of Banja of Peja or Ilixhe, and the village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berkovo
Berkovo ( sr-Cyrl, Берково, ) is a village in the Klina municipality, Kosovo. History The village was mentioned in the 1455 Ottoman defter of the District of Branković as a settlement. It was created as a village under the name Beroko in 1485. It began on the left bank of a river in the middle of the Klina– Đurakovac–Peć route and was located eight kilometers from Klina. The village of Berkovo in the then-municipality of Zlokućan, in the district of Isloch, in the Devič castle, was more than once inhabited between 1769 and 1785. The settlement was divided into several neighborhoods, which were named after the names of the larger families who lived in them: Pavlović, Panić, Banjci, Živković, Lazarević, Mašić, Jeremić, and others. The most numerous and oldest families in Berkovo are: Živkovići, Lazarevići, Banjci, Misirlići and Panlići. Vučkovići, Jevlići, Mašići and Milanovići settled later. At the end of the 19th century, it had 440 inhabitants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
