Pristina

Pristina, spelt Prishtina or Priština an aw listen  (Albanie: Prishtinë or Prishtina, Serbian: Приштина, Priština; Turkis: Priştine) is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Kosovo^[a]. It is the admeenistrative centre o the homonymous municipality an destrict.

Pristina
Municipality an Ceety
Pristina Prishtina / Prishtinë Приштина / Priština
Clockwise frae tap: Panorama, Clock Touer, Skanderbeg Square, Naitional Leebrar, Newborn monument, Govrenment Biggin, Skanderbeg monument, the Naitional Museum an Prishtina at nicht.
Pristina Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°40′N 21°10′E
Kintra	Kosovo
Destrict	Destrict o Pristina
Area
• Municipality an Ceety	854 km2 (330 sq mi)
Elevation	652 m (2,139 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Municipality an Ceety	198,214
• Density	230/km2 (600/sq mi)
• Metro	465,186 (2,011 Census)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)	+381 38
Website	Municipality of Pristina (in Albanie)

It is estimatit that the current population o the ceety stands atween 500,000^[1] an 600,000.^[2] The ceety haes a majority Albanian population, alangside ither smawer communities includin Turks, Bosniaks, Roma an ithers. It is the administrative, educational, an cultural centre o Kosovo. The ceety is home tae the University o Pristina an is served bi the Pristina Internaitional Airport.

Name

The name o the ceety is derived frae a Slavic form *Prišьčь, a possessive adjective frae the personal name *Prišьkъ, (preserved in the Kajkavian surname Prišek, in the Auld Polish personal name Przyszek, and in the Polish surname Przyszek) an the derivational suffix -ina 'belongin tae X an his kin'. The name is maist likely a patronymic o the personal name *Prišь, preserved as a surname in Polish Przysz an Sorbian Priš, a hypochoristic o the Slavic personal name Pribyslavъ.^[3] A false etymology connects the name Priština wi Serbo-Croatian prišt (пришт), meanin 'ulcer' or 'tumour', referring tae its 'boilin'.^[4] Housomeivver, this explanation canna be correct, as Slavic place names ending in -ina corresponding tae an adjective an/or name o an inhabitant lackin this suffix are built frae personal names or denote a person an niver derive, unner these conditions, frae common nouns (SNOJ 2007: loc. cit.). The inhabitants o this ceety caw themselves Prishtinali in local Gheg Albanian or Prištevci (Приштевци) in the local Serbian dialect.

Geografie

Pristina is locatit at the geographical coordinates 42° 40' 0" North an 21° 10' 0" East an covers 572 square kilometre (221 sq mi). It lies in the north-eastren part o Kosovo close tae the Goljak mountains. Frae Pristina there is a guid view o the Šar Mountains which lie several kilometres away in the sooth o Kosovo. Pristina is locatit beside twa lairge touns, Obilić an Kosovo Polje. In fact Pristina haes grown so muckle these past years that it haes connectit wi Kosovo Polje. Lake Badovac is juist a few kilometres tae the sooth o the ceety.

There is nae river passin through the ceety o Pristina nou but there wis ane that passed through the centre. The river flows through unnergrund tunnels an is let oot intae the surface when it passes the ceety. The reason for coverin the river wis because the river passed bi the local market an awbody dumped their waste there. This caused an awful smell an the river haed tae be covered.

The river nou ae flows through Pristina's suburbs in the north an in the sooth.

Internaitional relations

Twin touns — Sister ceeties

Pristina is twinned wi:

• Ankara, Turkey.
• Bursa, Turkey.^[5]
• Durrës, Albanie.
• Tirana, Albanie.^[6][7]
• Karachi, Pakistan.

Notes

1. Kosovo is the subject o a territorial dispute atween the Republic o Serbie an the sel-proclaimed Republic o Kosovo. The latter declared unthirldom on 17 Februar 2008, but Serbie continues tae claim it as pairt o its awn sovereign territory. Kosovo's independence haes been recognised bi 103 oot o 193 Unitit Nations member states.