A look at Kosovo

Prishtina is divided into mahallas (neighborhoods):

1, Çarshia, almost in the middle of the city, where trade takes place and covered shops are located. There is also the guest house of the pasha (hyxhymeti). Before, it was inhabited only by Serbs, the Çarshia (in the market), now they have been driven out. Where the pasha's new mansion is located up to the clock tower, once there were the walls of the old palace of Tsar Milutin, the old Prishtina, and so wrote Mr. M. S. Milojevic in his travelogue. He saw these walls 25 years ago, but there are no traces of them, because the pasha's residence was built on those walls eight years ago. Haxhi-Vitko told me that the Turks, before walling up the pasha's mansion, near the old walls of Tsar Milutin, had dug up and found two small chests made of iron or copper, and that there were some maps and books in them. That if those books and [those] maps had been unimportant, maybe the Turks would not have sent them all the way to Istanbul.

2, Varosh (the Turks call it Jarar-ceribashi). Here is the Serbian church of St. Nicholas, and below it is the Serbian school. Only Serbs live.

3, Pirinas, this is what both Serbs and Turks call the neighborhood. Here is a mosque, a former Serbian church, which the Prishtina people think is the old metropolis. In this, perhaps, church turned into a mosque, the knight Lazar was buried for the first time, that's why they call it St. Lazar. Most Serbs live there.

4, Mahalla Alaudin, where Albanians and Turks live.

5, Panaxhurishte, (the Turks call it Hasan Beg neighborhood). Both Serbs and Turks live there.

6, Mahalla e Kater Llullav, both Serbs and Turks live there.

7, Llokaç (the Turks call him Junuz-efendi). Serbs and Turks live there.

8, Mahalla Kuit, (the neighborhood of the Roma or Hasan-Emini). Serbs and Turks live there.

9, Mahalla Ramadanie, Serbs and Turks live.

10, Hatunije neighborhood, Turks and Albanians live.

11, Mahalla Mehmed Beg, Turks and Albanians live.

12, Mahalla Jusuf Çelebi, Roma-Serbs, Turks and Albanians live.

Source: Veselinović, M. (1895). View across Kosovo. Belgrade: State Press, p. 9–10; See also Rizaj, Skender (1988). Prishtina during the XVII-XIX centuries (1912). In Albanian Traces, Pristina 27 (18), p. 87–109. Printed material. (Translation: Yll Rugova.)