Pristina

Pristina, spelt Prishtina or Priština an aw listen  (Albanie: Prishtinë or Prishtina, Serbian: Приштина, Priština; Turkis: Priştine) is the caipital an maistmuckle city o Kosovo^[a]. It is the administrative 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 city stauns atween 500,000^[1] an 600,000.^[2] The feck o the population are Albanian, alangside ither smawer communities includin Turks, Bosniaks, Roma an ithers. It is the administrative, educational, an cultural centre o Kosovo. The city is hame tae the University o Pristina an is servit bi the Pristina Internaitional Airport.

Name

The name o the city is derived frae a Slavic form *Prišьčь, a possessive adjective frae the personal name *Prišьkъ, (preservit in the Kajkavian surname Prišek, in the Auld Pols personal name Przyszek, an in the Pols 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, preservit as a surname in Pols Przysz an Serbie 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', referrin tae its 'boilin'.^[4] Houaniver, this explanation canna be richt, as Slavic place names endin in -ina correspondin tae an adjective an/or name o an inhabitant lackin this suffix are biggit frae personal names or denote a person an niver derive, unner these conditions, frae common nouns (SNOJ 2007: loc. cit.). The inhabitants o this city caw thaimsels Prishtinali in local Gheg Albanian or Prištevci (Приштевци) in the local Serbie byleid.

Geographie

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 pairt o Kosovo close tae the Goljak muntains. Frae Pristina thare is a guid view o the Šar Mountains that lie mony kilometre awa in the sooth o Kosovo. Pristina is locatit beside twa muckle touns o Obilić an Kosovo Polje. In fact Pristina haes grown so muckle these past yeirs that it haes connectit wi Kosovo Polje. Loch Badovac is juist a few kilometre tae the sooth o the city.

Thare is nae burn passin throu the city o Pristina nou but thare wis ane that passed throu the centre. The burn flows throu unnergrund tunnels an is lat oot intae the surface whan it passes the city. The reason fur coverin the burn wis acause the burn passed bi the local mercat an awbody dumped their waste thare. This resultit in a foul smell an the burn haed tae be covered.

The burn nou flows throu 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.