Prisrend
a city of eastern Serbia, close to the frontier with Albania, 75 miles E. of Scutari, and fourth city in size in the whole of Serbia, with a population, in 1911, of 21,244. The city has a citadel 1,100 feet above sea level, and 24 mosques. It was part of the territory taken from the Turks during the Balkan Wars, in 1912. Through this city fled the broken remnants of the Serbian Army, after the invasion of the country by the forces of the Central Powers, in the fall of 1915, this being the last avenue of escape left open after their final PRISTINA PRIVET defeat on Kossovo Plain, about 30 miles ment permission, expressed by a letter further N.