TRICHTINA

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

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