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1582, Jean Palerne

Page from J. Palerne's book where Prishtina is mentioned in 1582.

On the fourteenth of August [1582] we left that place and took the road through the mountains of Vragne [Vranje], on the left a small town inhabited only by Turks, near which may be seen a castle on a high mountain, which and may be very ancient. From there the same day we went to stay at Vrajohosto [Vratagosh?], a city, and from there to another, called Stranbis[?], which is about a hundred miles from the city of Nourbourdon [Novobërdo?], which we saw from the mountain, and thence to Prestina [Pristina], another large and beautiful city, with its mosques, and caravanserai: where we stayed. On the following day, the seventeenth of the same month, we left, and eight thousand [miles] from this city we arrived at a small village, where is the tomb of the so-called second Amuratus, who, as it was said, was killed together with five or six of his men from Milo Konene in his own tent, in the middle of his army's camp.

Source: Palerne, Jean (1582). Peregrinations du S. Jean Palerne Foresien, Secretaire de François de Valois. Lyon: Jean Pillehotte, p. 506. Printed material. (Translated by Yll Rugova.)

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Prishtina in History (2024), 1582, Jean Palerne, in Y. Rugova (red.) Prishtina in History (I). Last accessed 18.09.2024: https://www.prishtinanehistori.org/en/article/154/1582-jean-palerne