Priština

or Prish·ti·na, Prish·ti·ne

[ preesh-tuh-nuh ]

noun

1. the capital city of Kosovo, S Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro: site of 1389 battle against Turks and center of modern Kosovar (Albanian) separatist movement.

Priština

/ ˈpriːʃtina /

noun

1. the capital of Kosovo: under Turkish control until 1912; severely damaged in the Kosovo conflict of 1999; nearby is the 14th-century Gračanica monastery. Pop: 261 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

“There is very little cooperation between the two research and education systems, but even that could now be endangered by the land swaps,” says Dukagjin Pupovci, a mathematician who heads the Kosovo Education Center, a policy think-tank in Priština, Kosovo’s capital.

From Nature

One is the University of Priština, whose 1,500 employees and 16,000 students during the war in 1998–99 fled from Priština to Mitrovica; it is also the only university in Kosovo that still teaches in Serbian rather than Albanian.

From Nature

It would become just another provincial university, says Aleksandar Ćorac, a medical researcher at the University of Priština, who studies the effects of soil and air pollution on health.

From Nature

“In Serbia, they want to save money,” she says, noting that the Kosovo bonuses for professors at the University of Priština have already declined.

From Nature

Yet probably his lordship's countenance had not the pallor of the man of Priština, because "from an early dinner to the hour of rest he never left his chair, nor did the claret ever quit the table."

From Project Gutenberg