Dukagjin Plain | plain, Kosovo | Britannica (original) (raw)
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history of Serbia
In Serbia: The Golden Age …southward to Peć, in the Metohija Plain. In 1375 the archbishop of Peć was raised to the status of patriarch, in spite of the pronouncement of an anathema by Constantinople. During this time great churches and monasteries were endowed—particularly the Mileševo (c. 1235), Peć (1250), Morača (1252), Sopoćani (c. 1260),… Read More
In Serbia: The scramble for the Balkans …of Novi Pazar, Kosovo, and Metohija—the heartland of medieval Raška and the home of the monuments to ecclesiastical Serbia’s Golden Age. The recovery of Kosovo, in particular, took on the appeal of national destiny. Read More
In Serbia: Conflict in Kosovo …the Autonomous Region of Kosovo-Metohija. (The latter also was made an autonomous province under the constitutional revision of 1963.) The creation of the autonomous provinces was intended to reflect their special circumstances as areas of ethnic complexity rather than any status as quasi-republics that might serve as “homelands” for… Read More
physical geography of Kosovo
In Kosovo: Relief, drainage, and soils … in the east from the Dukagjin (Metohija) Plain in the west. These plains constitute the country’s two main basins. The Kosovo Plain is drained by the northward-flowing Sitnicë (Sitnica) River, a tributary of the Ibër (Ibar) River. The Dukagjin Plain is drained by the southward-flowing Drini i Bardhë, or White… Read More
