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PRIZREN (also written Prisren, Prisrend, Prizrendi, Prezdra and Perzerin) , the See also:capital of the sanjak of Prizren, in the vilayet of See also:Kossovo, See also:Albania, See also:European See also:Turkey; 65 m. E. by N. of See also:Scutari, on the See also:river Bistritza, a See also:left-See also:hand tributary of the See also:White Drin. Pop. (1905), about 30,000, chiefly See also:Mahommedan Albanians, with a minority of See also:Roman See also:Catholic Albanians, Serbs and Greeks. Prizren is beautifully situated 1424 ft. above See also:sea-level, among the See also:northern outliers of the Shar Planina. To the See also:north-See also:west a fertile and undulating See also:plain, watered by the White Drin, extends as far as See also:Ipek (42 m.). A See also:good road connects Prizren with the Ferisovich station on the See also:Salonica-Mitrovitza railway (37 m.). The See also:city is the seat of a Roman Catholic See also:archbishop, a See also:Greek See also:bishop, and a Servian theological See also:seminary. Its See also:chief buildings are the citadel and many mosques, one of which is an See also:ancient See also:Byzantine See also:basilica, originally a 1 See also:Prince von Billow was credited with suggesting in his See also:correspondence on the question of the Bundesrath that a tribunal of See also:arbitration should be instituted to See also:deal with all questions of See also:capture. At any See also:rate, on the 19th of See also:January 190o he wrote that the See also:German See also:government had proposed that all the points then in dispute should be submitted to arbitration. The See also:British government declared their concurrence in the institution of a tribunal to arbitrate upon claims for See also:compensation. Servian See also:cathedral.

In its bazaars an active See also:

trade in agricultural produce, See also:glass, pottery, See also:saddlery, and See also:copper and See also:iron See also:ware is carried on; but the manufacture of See also:fire-arms, for which Prizren was See also:long famous throughout European Turkey, has suffered greatly from See also:foreign competition. Prizren has sometimes, though on doubtful See also:evidence, been identified with the ancient Tharendus or Theranda. In the 12th See also:century it was the See also:residence of the See also:kings of See also:Servia, and the sanjak of Prizren forms See also:part of the region still called Old Servia (Stara Srbiya) by the Slays. From the 13th century to the 16th Prizren had a flourishing export trade with See also:Ragusa, and it has always been one of the See also:principal centres of See also:commerce and See also:industry in Albania.

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