Vrella | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Kosovo |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kosovo |
Subdivision Type: | Location |
Subdivision Name: | Kosovo |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Peja |
Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name2: | Istog |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 2641 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 42.7706°N 20.4044°W |
Vrella (Serbian: Врело) or Vrellë (in Albanian), formerly Vrela (Serbian: Врела) is a village in Istog municipality, Kosovo.
The village has an Albanian ethnic majority.
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.