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Endrit Berisha
- 15 May 2024 22:25
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It was mentioned for the first time around the year 1315 as a road, in a chrysobula from Banjska e Mitrovica. A few years later, Prishtina is also mentioned in a Ragusan document (located in the archives there) that proves that Ragusan merchants paid their tax in a settlement called Pristina. There were about 150 inhabitants. Data like these and much more already have an address: prishtinahistori.org. This circle, as the creators call it, comes as a "counter-response" to the fact that Pristina's past is "very little preserved in the archives". Contains archival material from the 13th to the 20th century, but that's just the beginning
"Prishtina in history" is the title of the digital site opened with the aim of collecting texts, maps, engravings, photographs and works about the history of the city of Pristina, covering the time from the end of the 13th century to the early years of the 20th century.
In the editorial of the platform, its editor, Yll Rugova, said that it resembles an online museum, but that it cannot be considered as such.
"The format of this platform, which aims to collect and make accessible to the general public resources and knowledge about the history of the city (and region) of Pristina, is a little unusual. It is not an online scientific journal, nor is it a city tourism promotion site, as are usually developed for different cities. The platform may have some similarity with the format of online museums, which have been developed in recent decades, but, however, it cannot be considered as such", said Rugova.
In the communique from "Trembelat", as the initiator of the platform, it was said that the Archive of Pristina has made the documents accessible. It says that more than 38 Ottoman documents "which document the history of Pristina from the 500th century to the 15th century" have recently been brought to this archive. The announcement states that most of the materials are unstudied and unknown to the public.
"On the other hand, many studies, which were made based on the archives of Rome, Venice and Dubrovnik, remain in library drawers and are known only by a small group of specialists. These data, but also others related to the past of Pristina, from archives, libraries and collections have been collected and will continue to be collected in the other phases of this project. Among the published materials are about 100 original translated documents, in addition to the written texts, and important articles from the past that deserve to be read more widely. Most of them have been published in this initial phase", said the press release on Wednesday, after the launch of the platform.
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In response to KOĖN, Rugova estimated that a lot can be learned from the documents on this platform about the history of the capital.
"It is important to recall that the history of Pristina does not begin either in 1999, nor in 1945, nor in 1912. Although these three dates are very important for the fate of the city. Prishtina is first mentioned in 1315, perhaps to describe a road of that time. Data about the city will be added after this date. There are very interesting data about the Ragusan colony in Pristina throughout the 1300s. Then the changes that occur in the 1400s, when the city comes under the Ottoman occupation. The development that characterizes it in the following two centuries, up to a short period of Habsburg occupation in 1689. All these periods are relatively well documented in the sources of the time, a good part of which we have published in this book. ", he said.
The researcher for the Ottoman documents is professor Agron Islami from the Institute of History. In an article on Facebook, Islam has said that his work is based on Ottoman documents and a selected bibliography, it contains data on the political, demographic and urban history of the capital. The general researcher is Durim Abdullahu from the University of Pristina.
The front page of the platform starts with "Sources for Pristina 1315-1899" continuing with a series of articles. "Resources for Pristina" is divided into four periods. The front page ends with 5 interactive maps that also reveal population records.
E Rugova has said that among the main peculiarities is the first detailed census of the population with the names of family heads, from 1569. He has said that among the documents is also the Testament of Pjetër Bogdani in 1689, which as a document has been preserved in Rome and that it is translated into Albanian on this platform.
"In 1809, some Albanian words of Malik Pasha Gjinolli, Pasha of Pristina for some 30 years, were recorded. It is the first time that we find an Albanian fragment from a figure from Pristina. Then we traced an engraving from Prishtina, the earliest we know so far, from 1849, and others," said Rugova.
This "corner", as Rugova calls it, is intended for the general public, but the creators expect it to be used by local and foreign researchers. The materials have been translated into English and Serbian for this purpose, Rugova announced.
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He estimated that the past of Pristina is "very little preserved in the archives". But he added that, nevertheless, some important documents are located in the Archive of Kosovo.
"It is about original documents here. While copies and digital copies were newly brought to Pristina in 2018, and these constitute the main part of the materials that were examined for this compilation as well", he said about the platform which is "an initiative of Trembela with the publishing logo 'Varg' under special support from the funds of the Municipality of Pristina, in close partnership with the Archives of Pristina".
