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PRISHTINA, TRICHTINA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 361 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRISHTINA, TRICHTINA , Or PRISTINA, the See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak in the vilayet of See also:Kossovo, See also:Albania, See also:European See also:Turkey; on a small tributary of the See also:river Sitnftza, an affluent of the Ibar, and 3 m. E. of the Prishtina station on the See also:Salonica-Mitrovitza railway. Pop. (1905), about 11,000. Prishtina is the seat of a See also:governor-See also:general and of a general of See also:division, and possesses many mosques, a military See also:hospital and a higher class school. The See also:trade is considerable, the exports including chrome, See also:wheat, See also:maize, See also:barley, skins, See also:wine and See also:timber from the magnificent See also:beech forests in the sanjak. The See also:plain of Kossovo (Kossovopolye, " See also:Field of Blackbirds "), to the See also:west, was the See also:scene of the See also:battle in which the Servian See also:empire was destroyed by the See also:Turks in 1389. To the See also:south-See also:east lies the partly ruined monastery of Grachanitza founded by See also:King Milutin of See also:Servia (1275–1321). Among the frescoes are a remarkable See also:head of See also:Christ in the See also:dome, and portraits of the founder and his See also:queen Simonida, daughter of Andronicus II. See also:Palaeologus. See G. M.

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Mackenzie and A. P.

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