Prizren District (Serbia)
district of Serbia
The Prizren District (Serbian: Призренски округ, romanized: Prizrenski okrug, pronounced [prîzrenskiː ôkruːɡ]) was administrative district of Serbia between 1992 and the end of the Kosovo War in 1999. The administrative center of the Prizren District was the city of Prizren. From the Serbian state official point of view, the district continues to be part of Serbia.
Cities and municipalities
The Prizren District encompassed the territories of one city and three municipalities:
Prizren (city)
Gora (municipality)
Orahovac (municipality)
Suva Reka (municipality)
References
Note: All official material made by the Government of Serbia is public by law. Information was taken from the official website.
“Prizren District (Serbia)” enters the record as district of Serbia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Prizren, District and Serbia can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q201085. Authority coordinates are 42.217, 20.733. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 1999.
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