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Metohija (Serbian Cyrillic: Метохија, pronounced [metǒxija]), also known in Albanian as Dukagjin[a] (Albanian: Rrafshi i Dukagjinit, pronounced [ˈrafʃi i dukaˈɟinit]) is a large basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo. The region covers 35% (3,891 km 2) of Kosovo's total area.
The park encompasses 63,028 hectares (630.28 km 2) of the mountainous region of the Albanian Alps. The Sharr Mountains National Park was established to protect the spectacular scenery of southeastern Kosovo. It includes the country's section of the Sharr Mountains that cuts across the landscape along the border between Kosovo and North Macedonia.
The Highlands of Gjakova are bordered by Kosovo's Plain of Dukagjin to the east, the Fierza Lake to the south, the ethnographic Dukagjin Highlands region to the west and the mountains of Plav and Guci to the north. Much of the region corresponds to the Tropoja Municipality of Albania, with the main municipal centre in Bajram Curri. This section ...
Dukagjin Highlands. Shala valley. Dukagjin Highlands [a] (Albanian: Malsia E Dukagjinit) is a mountainous region in northern Albania, east of Shkodra and north of the Drin. [1] It is roughly equivalent to the northern half of the Shkodër District, with some minor parts in Malësi e Madhe District.
At the end of the fourteenth and the start of the fifteenth century he managed to carve a principality from Ishmi to Prizren at the heart of region of Kosovo. [40] Part of western Kosovo was part of the Albanian principality of Dukagjini after which western Kosovo is known in Albanian as Dukagjin. [41]
The name Dukagjini is a compound of the personal name Gjin and the title duka (duke). The Dukagjini are descendants of an aristocrat named Gjin Tanushi who lived in the late 13th century. He is mentioned in 1281 in a letter of the captain of Angevine Durazzo as duca Ginium Tanuschium Albanensem. [ 1 ] The earlier family name of Gjin Tanush may ...
Albanian tribes. Shala is a historical tribe and region of northern Albania in the valley of the river Shalë, in the Dukagjin highlands. At the end of the 19th century the tribe was Catholic and had c. 3,000 members and 700 households.
Korisha Fortress is a hilltop fortress in Kosovo that dates back to prehistoric and ancient times. It has archaeological and historical values as a site of a Paleo-Christian church of the 6th century, as well as various ceramic vessels from different periods. The fortress overlooks the Prizren plain and the Dukagjin plain, and was declared ...