Arllat | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Kosovo |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Coordinates: | 42.5452°N 20.8329°W |
Subdivision Type: | Location |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Prishtinë |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Gllogoc |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 3134 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | Central European Time |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code: | 329/138 |
Arllat is a village located in the municipality of Drenas in Kosovo.[2]
Arllat was noted in an Ottoman defter of 1485 as a large village, consisting of 43 homes. On top of a plateau overlooking the village, there existed a Serbian Orthodox monastery purportedly built with the same materials used to build the Visoki Dečani monastery. The monastery was abandoned during the Great Migrations of the Serbs in 1690. The monastery lay abandoned until 1885 when local Albanians deconstructed the monastery and used the remnants to build a mosque in Arllat.[3]
According to refugees, buildings in this small village located on the crossroads between Pristina, Peja, and Malisheva were set on fire by Serbian forces on March 30 after some 200 ethnic Albanian men had been executed.[4]