Sanjak of Prizren

Sanjak of Prizren Prizren Sancağı Sanxhaku i Prizrenit Призренски санџак
Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire
← 1455–1913 →
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Capital		Prizren
History
•	Established	1455
•	Treaty of London (1913)	May 30, 1913 1913
Today part of		Montenegro,  Serbia,  Kosovo

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The Sanjak of Prizren (Turkish: Prizren Sancağı, Albanian: Sanxhaku i Prizrenit, Serbian: Призренски санџак) was one of the sanjaks in the Ottoman Empire with Prizren as its administrative centre. It was founded immediately after Ottoman Empire captured Prizren from Serbian Despotate in 1455. It was one of the sanjaks established on the territory which Ottoman Empire conquered from Serbian Despotate. The rest of the territory of Serbian Despotate was conquered after the fall of Smederevo in 1459, and divided into following sanjaks: Sanjak of Vučitrn, Sanjak of Kruševac and Sanjak of Smederevo. At the beginning of the First Balkan War in 1912, the territory of Sanjak of Prizren was occupied by the armies of Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of Montenegro. Based on Treaty of London signed on May 30, 1913, the territory of Sanjak of Prizren was divided between Serbia and Montenegro.

According to the 1571 Ottoman register, the Sanjak of Prizren consisted of five nahiyahs: Prizren, Hoča, Žežna, Trgovište and Bihor.

The majority of the territory that once belonged to the Sanjak of Prizren now belongs to Kosovo (Prizren and Hoča), Serbia (Žežna, 20 km south-east of Novi Pazar) and smaller parts, Montenegro (Bihor, and Trgovište, near Rožaje).

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