Vrelo, Istok
Vrella (Serbian Cyrillic: Врело) or Vrellë (in Albanian), formerly Vrela (Врела) is a village in Istok municipality, Kosovo.
Vrellë
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Village | |
  Vrellë Location in Kosovo | |
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| Location |  Kosovo[lower-alpha 1] |
| District | Peć |
| Municipality | Istog |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 2,641 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Demography
The village has Albanian ethnic majority.
History
Vrelo was first mentioned in written sources in 1397, when Princess Milica of Serbia donated the Vrela hamlet to Visoki Dečani monastery. In census from 1485 monastery of Our Lady of Hvosno with 5 monks is mentioned. For a time monastery elder was Makarije Sokolović, future Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Near the monastery are remains of an unnamed fort, and high above the place several hermitages have been found.
Notes
- Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008. Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 99 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 113 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 14 later withdrew their recognition.
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