List Of Monuments In Vushtrri
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This is an incomplete list of monuments in Vushtrri municipality:


Cultural monuments

}/''Vojinovića most''; sq, Ura Nëntë Harkore) is located in
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
, Kosovo. , , , - , 5 , Mahmut Gjinolli House , The Mahmut Gjinolli House is a cultural heritage monument in
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
Municipality,
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. , , , - , 6 , Kadri Hyseni Tower House , The Kadri Hyseni Tower House is a cultural heritage monument in Oshlan,
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
, Kosovo. , , , - , 7 , Zeynullah Bey Tower House , The Zeynullah Bey Tower House is a cultural heritage monument in
Balince ''Balince'' is a compilation album of Marty Balin's work, including work from his solo albums and also including tracks from Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and KBC Band. The album also includes unreleased tracks from the KBC Band sessio ...
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Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
, Kosovo. , , , - , 8 , Hajrizi Mill (Gentleman's Mill) , The Hajrizi Mill or Gentleman's Mill is a cultural heritage monument in the village of Smrekonica,
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
Municipality,
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
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Gentleman's Wall (Smrekonica) The Gentleman's Will is a cultural heritage monument in Smrekonica, Vushtrri, Kosovo. History The wall known locally as Gentleman's Wall is located in the Kajtazi neighborhood of Smrekonica, about from the center of Vučitrn. The wall is said ...
, The Gentleman's Will is a cultural heritage monument in Smrekonica,
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
, Kosovo. , , , - , 10 ,
Zymer Musiqi House The Zymer Musiqi House is a cultural heritage monument in Cecelija, Vushtrri, Kosovo. History The house, which was once the property of the Musiqi and Mulaku families, is located in a village named after Saint Cecilia, registered within the S ...
, The Zymer Musiqi House is a cultural heritage monument located in the village
Cecelia Cecelia is a variation of the given name Cecilia. People with the name include: * Cecelia Adkins (1923–2007, African-American publisher * Cecelia Ager (1902–1981), American film critic and reporter * Cecelia Ahern (born 1981) is an Irish noveli ...
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Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
. The house was built of stone and wood with a
straw Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has a number ...
-based mortar. The ground floor includes soft
limestone Limestone ( calcium carbonate ) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime. It is composed mostly of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of . Limestone forms whe ...
and wood with walls about thick, while the first floor uses the aforementioned
thatch Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (''Cladium mariscus''), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of ...
mortar albeit less on the north side. The roof is
tile Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or o ...
and stretches out into a 1-m awning. There are two entrances, one northward and one southward, with an interior staircase connecting both to the three bedrooms, living room, hearth, hallway, and bathrooms inside. The south side featured a
divan A divan or diwan ( fa, دیوان, ''dīvān''; from Sumerian ''dub'', clay tablet) was a high government ministry in various Islamic states, or its chief official (see ''dewan''). Etymology The word, recorded in English since 1586, meanin ...
for summer gatherings. , , , -


Religious monuments

}) also known as the Church of St. Lazar ( sr, Црква Св. Лазара, ''Crkva Sv. Lazara'', sq, Kisha e Shën Llazarit) in
Samodreža Samadrexha (Albanian: ''Samadrexhë''; Serbian Cyrillic: Самодрежа, ''Samodreža''), is a village in the Vushtrria municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited exclusively by ethnic Albanians. The local Serbian Orthodox church, Church of S ...
, six kilometers east of
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
,
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
, is a
Serbian Orthodox The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian churches. The majority of the population in ...
Church dedicated to the
Beheading of St John the Baptist The beheading of John the Baptist, also known as the decollation of Saint John the Baptist or the beheading of the Forerunner, is a biblical event commemorated as a holy day by various Christian churches. According to the New Testament, Herod ...
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Church of Saint Elijah, Vučitrn The Church of Vushtrri in the Republic of Kosovo ''(formerly Dardania)'' is dedicated to ''Saint Elias'' and was built in 1834 on the foundations of an old Orthodox church (probably a Paleo-Christian church) in the eastern part of Vushtrri, where ...
, Church of Saint Elijah is a
Serbian Orthodox Church The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches. The majori ...
located in
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
, the city and the seat of the eponymous municipality in
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. The church dedicated to
St. Elijah Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) was, according to the Books of ...
was built in 1834 on the foundations of the old
Orthodox church Orthodox Church may refer to: * Eastern Orthodox Church * Oriental Orthodox Churches * Orthodox Presbyterian Church * Orthodox Presbyterian Church of New Zealand * State church of the Roman Empire * True Orthodox church See also * Orthodox (di ...
in the eastern part of
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
, where the buried church items were found. , , , - , 3 , City Tekke (Vushtrri) , The City Tekke of Vushtrri is a
tomb A tomb ( grc-gre, τύμβος ''tumbos'') is a :wikt:repository, repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be ...
and a cultural heritage monument in
Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
,
Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...
. It is named a ''teqe'' or ''tekke'' because the local
Sufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...
monastery or
khanqah A khanqah ( fa, خانقاه) or khangah ( fa, خانگاه; also transliterated as ''khankah'', ''khaneqa'', ''khanegah'' or ''khaneqah''; also Arabized ''hanegah'', ''hanikah'', ''hanekah'', ''khankan''), also known as a ribat (), is a buildin ...
, so named in the region, is nearby. , , , - , 4 ,
Gazi Ali Beg Mosque Gazi Ali Beg Mosque is a mosque located in the old core of the city of Vushtrri, 100m away from the Old Hammam, as part of the Gazi Ali Beg Complex. Build in the 15th century is one of the oldest cultural heritage monuments not only in the munici ...
, Mosque of Gazi Ali Bey (Xhamia e Gazi Ali Beut) was built in 1444 near the public bath (Hammam). During the last war in 1999, its inaretwas destroyed by a
Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...
n grenade. In 2002 the mosque was restored and the minaret was rebuilt, unfortunately not corresponding to the original one. Besides this, authenticity of the mosque and its surrounding was damaged by removal of the carrel near the entrance and some grave-stones from the yard. It is a protected monument by law with a status number 02-985/66. This mosque is one of the oldest ones in Kosovo. Destroyed during the war, this mosque was rebuilt. , ,


Archaeological & architectural sites


Natural monuments


See also

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Vushtrri Vushtrri ( sq-definite, Vushtrria) or Vučitrn ( sr-Cyrl, Вучитрн), is a city and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in northern Kosovo. According to the 2011 census, the town of Vushtrri has 26,964 inhabitants, while the munic ...
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List of monuments in Prizren Prizren along with its historical values contributes to not only the city itself, but the entire territory of Kosovo. Numerous data that have remained from the past suggest that this area has been inhabited since ancient times. Among the most valu ...
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Archaeological sites in the District of Mitrovica The strategic position of the region of Mitrovica in the middle of two great rivers Ibar and Sitnica and its mineral wealth in Albanik (Monte Argentarum), made this location populated since prehistoric period. This region was populated by Illyria ...


References

{{Reflist Cultural heritage of Kosovo Lists of monuments and memorials in Kosovo Cultural heritage monuments in Vushtrri