Pristina
Pristina | |
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| Pristina Prishtina / Prishtinë Приштина / Priština | |
 Clockwise frae tap: Panorama, Clock Touer, Skanderbeg Square, Naitional Leebrar, Newborn monument, Govrenment Biggin, Skanderbeg monument, the Naitional Museum an Prishtina at nicht. | |
  Pristina Location in Kosovo | |
| Coordinates: 42°40′N 21°10′E / 42.667°N 21.167°E | |
| Kintra | Kosovo |
| Destrict | Destrict o Pristina |
| Area | |
| • Municipality an Ceety | 854 km2 (330 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 652 m (2,139 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Municipality an Ceety | 198,214 |
| • Density | 230/km2 (600/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 465,186 (2,011 Census) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Area code(s) | +381 38 |
| Website | Municipality of Pristina (in Albanie) |
Pristina, spelt Prishtina or Priština an aw 
listen (help·info) (Albanie: Prishtinë or Prishtina, Serbian: Приштина, Priština; Turkis: Priştine) is the caipital an maistmuckle city o Kosovo[a]. It is the administrative centre o the homonymous municipality an destrict.
It is estimatit that the current population o the city stauns atween 500,000[1] an 600,000.[2] The feck o the population are Albanian, alangside ither smawer communities includin Turks, Bosniaks, Roma an ithers. It is the administrative, educational, an cultural centre o Kosovo. The city is hame tae the University o Pristina an is servit bi the Pristina Internaitional Airport.
Name
[eedit | eedit soorce]The name o the city is derived frae a Slavic form *Prišьčь, a possessive adjective frae the personal name *Prišьkъ, (preservit in the Kajkavian surname Prišek, in the Auld Pols personal name Przyszek, an in the Pols surname Przyszek) an the derivational suffix -ina 'belongin tae X an his kin'. The name is maist likely a patronymic o the personal name *Prišь, preservit as a surname in Pols Przysz an Serbie Priš, a hypochoristic o the Slavic personal name Pribyslavъ.[3] A false etymology connects the name Priština wi Serbo-Croatian prišt (пришт), meanin 'ulcer' or 'tumour', referrin tae its 'boilin'.[4] Houaniver, this explanation canna be richt, as Slavic place names endin in -ina correspondin tae an adjective an/or name o an inhabitant lackin this suffix are biggit frae personal names or denote a person an niver derive, unner these conditions, frae common nouns (SNOJ 2007: loc. cit.). The inhabitants o this city caw thaimsels Prishtinali in local Gheg Albanian or Prištevci (Приштевци) in the local Serbie byleid.
Geographie
[eedit | eedit soorce]Pristina is locatit at the geographical coordinates 42° 40' 0" North an 21° 10' 0" East an covers 572 square kilometre (221 sq mi). It lies in the north-eastren pairt o Kosovo close tae the Goljak muntains. Frae Pristina thare is a guid view o the Šar Mountains that lie mony kilometre awa in the sooth o Kosovo. Pristina is locatit beside twa muckle touns o Obilić an Kosovo Polje. In fact Pristina haes grown so muckle these past yeirs that it haes connectit wi Kosovo Polje. Loch Badovac is juist a few kilometre tae the sooth o the city.
Thare is nae burn passin throu the city o Pristina nou but thare wis ane that passed throu the centre. The burn flows throu unnergrund tunnels an is lat oot intae the surface whan it passes the city. The reason fur coverin the burn wis acause the burn passed bi the local mercat an awbody dumped their waste thare. This resultit in a foul smell an the burn haed tae be covered.
The burn nou flows throu Pristina's suburbs in the north an in the sooth.
Internaitional relations
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twin touns — Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Pristina is twinned wi:
Notes
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Kosovo is the subject o a territorial dispute atween the Republic o Serbie an the sel-proclaimed Republic o Kosovo. The latter declared unthirldom on 17 Februar 2008, but Serbie continues tae claim it as pairt o its awn sovereign territory. Kosovo's independence haes been recognised bi 103 oot o 193 Unitit Nations member states.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ OSCE municipal profile of Pristina PDF, April 2008. Retrieved on 20 Juin 2008.
- ↑ UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles: Kosovo. Retrieved on 21 February 2008.
- ↑ SNOJ, Marko. 2007. Origjina e emrit të vendit Prishtinë. In: BOKSHI, Besim (ed.). Studime filologjike shqiptare: konferencë shkencore, 21-22 nëntor 2007. Prishtinë: Akademia e Shkencave dhe e Arteve e Kosovës, 2008, pp. 277-281.
- ↑ This etymology is mentioned in ROOM, Adrian: Placenames of the World, Second Edition, McFarland, 2006, page 304. ISBN 0-7864-2248-3
- ↑ "Turkey's Bursa, Kosovo's Pristina become sister cities" worldbulletin.net 2 September 2010 Link accessed 2 September 2010
- ↑ "Twinning Cities: International Relations" (PDF). Municipality of Tirana. www.tirana.gov.al. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 16 Februar 2008. Retrieved 23 Juin 2009.
- ↑ Twinning Cities: International Relations. Municipality of Tirana. www.tirana.gov.al. Retrieved on 2008-01-25.
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