Vrelo, Istog
Vrella (Serbian Cyrillic: Врело) or Vrellë (in Albanian), formerly Vrela (Врела) is a village in Istog municipality, Kosovo.
Vrella
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Village | |
  Vrella Location in Kosovo | |
| Coordinates: 42°46′14″N 20°24′16″E | |
| Location | Kosovo[lower-alpha 1] |
| District | Peja |
| Municipality | Istog |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,641 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Demography
The village has an Albanian ethnic majority.[1]
History
Vrelo was first mentioned in written sources in 1397, when Princess Milica of Serbia donated the Vrela hamlet to Visoki Dečani monastery. In census from 1485 monastery of Our Lady of Hvosno with 5 monks is mentioned. For a time monastery elder was Makarije Sokolović, future Patriarch 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
- The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as a sovereign state by 101 UN member states (with another 13 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition) and 92 states not recognizing it, while Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own territory.
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