Vrella ( sr-Cyrl, Врело) or Vrellë (in Albanian), formerly Vrela () is a village in
Istog municipality, Kosovo.
Demography
The village has an Albanian ethnic majority.
History
Vrelo was first mentioned in written sources in 1397, when
Princess Milica of Serbia
Princess Milica Hrebeljanović née Nemanjić ( sr, Милица Немањић Хребељановић · ca. 1335 – November 11, 1405) also known as Empress (''Tsaritsa'') Milica, was a royal consort of Serbia by marriage to Prince Lazar, ...
donated the Vrela hamlet to
Visoki Dečani
The Visoki Dečani Monastery ( sr, Манастир Високи Дечани, Manastir Visoki Dečani, sq, Manastiri i Deçanit) is a medieval Serbian Orthodox Christian monastery located near Deçan, Kosovo. It was founded in the first half of ...
monastery. In census from 1485 monastery of
Our Lady of Hvosno with 5 monks is mentioned. For a time monastery elder was
Makarije Sokolović
Makarije Sokolović ( sr-cyrl, Макарије Соколовић ; died 1574) was the Archbishop of Peć and Serbian Patriarch from 1557 to 1571. He was the first head of the restored Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, after its lapse in 1463 that ...
, future
Patriarch
The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church (above major archbishop and primate), the Hussite Church, Church of the East, and some Independent Catholic Churches are termed patriarchs (and in certai ...
of the
Serbian Orthodox Church. Near the monastery are remains of an unnamed fort, and high above the place several
hermitages have been found.
Notes
References
Villages in Istog
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