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Prizereni-From settlement to independence
Antiquity The Prizren valley area was settled by Illyrians, the Dardani tri b e. Prizren was first m enti on e d as th e Roman town of Theranda in Ptolemy’s Geography in the 2nd century AD,and later as Petrizen by Procopius of Caesarea in De aedificiis in the 5th century.11th Century P ri re n wa s m e n ti o n e d a s t h e b i s h op ri c o f P ri s d ri a n ain the Charter of the Byzantine Emperor Basil II of 1018.12th Century Th e n o r t h e r n te r ri to ri e s o f p re s e n t- d a y A l b a n and parts of Kosovo were in Slavic hands, and by 1190 Kosovo became the administrative and cultural centre of the medieval Serbian state. Bulgarians. In 1216, Prizren was conquered by Stefan II Nemanjic, but the town was later gradually retaken by the Bulgarians. Besides trade, culture and arts flourish in this period, and the Arbër family of Balshaj became prominent.
 * 13th Century Immediately after the Fourth Crusade of 1204, Prizren was ruled by the

looking much like a medieval town in Western Europe with sophisticated fortifications, a civitas (administrative and economic centre) and a castrum or castellum (castle town). During the first half of the 14th century, Prizren was an important trading centre for merchants from the city of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) and in order to protect their interests, Ragusans founded a consulate to represent them and established institutions such as a customs office, a mint, a church and a hospital. The town was residence for the Catholic, Byzantine, Bulgarian and Serb bishops, and numerous important churches were constructed, reconstructed and converted. Conflicts and political division dominated the second half of the 14th century. The Ottoman Empire made its first attempts to get a foothold on the Balkans, and clash with the Serbs and its allies at the famous Battle of Kosovo in 1389. civil disturbances erupted throughoutKosovo. Political pluralism began creating conditions for thefirst political parties which sought for independence through a n o n -vi o l e n t s ol u ti o n. Th e s e e f fo r t s d i d n ot e n d t h e c ri si s a n d in1997 the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) made its first publicappearance. With fighting the KLA as a pretext, Serbia causedthousands of civilian casualties and a million refugees withfierce fighting during the 1998-1999 Kosovo War. Prizren’surban area didnot sustain much damage, though Serbianforces destroyed the Albanian League of Prizren complex.Surrounding villages suffered many civilian losses and materialdamage, and many residents fled across the border to Albania,Macedonia and Turkey. NATO’s 73-day bombing campaigna ga i n s t S e r b i a l e a d to a p ea c e d ea l a g re e i n g o n t h e wi t h d ra wa lof all Serbian forces from Kosovo, the return of all refugees, and an international peacekeeping security presence of NATOtroops, with Kosovo under UN administration.2004 Unrest throughout Kosovo on 17-18 March causeddamage to Orthodox monuments and Prizren’s Nënkalaja/Podkalaja neighbourhood. In 2005, the Reconstruction andImplementation Commission (RIC) initiated and implemented damage assessment projects and reconstruction work forthese damaged monuments. 2008 On February 17 Kosovo’s parliament declaredindependence. In June, Kos ovo’s n e w c o n s ti tu ti o n e n te re d i n toforce, granting specific rights to Kosovo’s minority groups.2009 The Municipality of Prizren adopted the landmarkConservation and Development Plan for the Historic Zoneof Prizren, the first concrete step towards the planning andprotection of the Prizren’s historical centre, and the very first of its kind in Kosovo.2010 In June, Kosovo’s first Balkan presidential summit took place near Prizren in Prevalla, as the leaders of Kosovo,Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia discussed closercooperation.
 * 14th Century As a free-trade town, Prizren reached the culmination of its development,
 * .1990-1999 After Kosovo’s autonomy was unilaterallyabolished in 1989,