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The PRIZRENSKI District expands in the southern part of the Republic.
It encompasses the municipalities of:
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Gora
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Opolje
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Orahovac
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Prizren
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Suva Reka
It has a population of 376,085. Seat of the District is in the city of
Prizren.
The Church of the Virgin Ljeviska, in Prizren, is the endowment of king
Milutin, together with the Archbishop Sava III, built in 1307.
Vicinity of Prizren is distinguished by other churches also: the Church of
Holly Salvation from 1348, the Church of St. Nicholas from 1332, the Church
of Prince Marko from 1371, the Assembly Church of St. George from the second
half of the nineteenth century.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, at the time of the Turkish
occupation, mosques, hammams, and medreses flowered throughout Prizren and
its vicinity. The Mosque of Bajrakli Gazi Mehmed-Pasha is the earliest
monument of the Islam art in Prizren. It was built in 1561, and still today
it safeguards books in Arab and Turkish, including a Koran from 1312.
This is mainly an agricultural region, but also food, textile,
pharmaceutical and metal industries are well developed
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