Vrelo, Istok
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Vrelo
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Village | |
  Vrelo Location in Kosovo | |
| Coordinates: Coordinates: 42°46′14″N 20°24′16″E / 42.77056°N 20.40444°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo[a] |
| District | Peja |
| Municipality | Istok |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,641 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Vrella (Serbian Cyrillic: Врело) or Vrellë (in Albanian), formerly Vrela (Врела) is a village in Istok municipality, Kosovo.
Demography[]
The village has an Albanian ethnic majority.[2]
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.[citation needed]
Notes[]
- ^ Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as a part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognised as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states have recognised Kosovo at some point, of which 15 states later withdrew their recognition.
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