Šar Mountains

Šar Mountains
Sharr Mountains
Šar Mountains as seen from Macedonia
Highest point
Peak	Titov Vrv (Macedonia)
Elevation	2,748 m (9,016 ft)
Geography
Location	Macedonia-Polog Valley Albania-Dibër County Kosovo

Šar Mountains National Park
IUCN category II (national park)
Šar Mountains National Park landscape.
Area	390 km2 (150 sq mi)
Established	1986

Coordinates: 42°00′00″N 20°44′00″E / 42°N 20.7333°E / 42; 20.7333

The Šar Mountains (Macedonian and Serbian: Шар планина/Šar planina) or Sharr Mountains (Albanian: Malet e Sharrit), form a mountain range in the Balkans that extends from Kosovo and the northwest of the Republic of Macedonia, to northeastern Albania.

In Antiquity, the mountains were known as Scardus, Scodrus, or Scordus (το Σκάρδον ὂρος in Polybius and Ptolemy).

Sometimes the range is called Carska planina ("Tsar's mountain"), as a reference to the capitals (Prizren and Skopje), courts (Nerodimlje, Pauni, Svrčin, etc.) and monasteries (Monastery of the Holy Archangels) of the Serbian Empire located in the region.

The mountain borders extend from the city of Prizren, following the two rivers of the Prizren Lumbardhi and the Lepenac. In the east it passes by the town of Kaçanik through the Kačanik Gorge and into Macedonia via the Polog valley. The border passes near the Vardar spring called Vrutok and enters near the valley of Mavrovo. There the Radika river separates the mountain massif from the higher Mount Korab. After that, the border is mounting, reaching the point of junction of three state borders: Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania. The border now follows the road to the small, mountainous, town of Restelica, the rivers of Globocica, Plava and the White Drin and finally reaches the city of Prizren.