Pristina
a town of Serbia, 30 miles N. E. of Prisrend, administrative seat of a department of the same name in the S. E. part of Serbia, in the foothills of the mountains of Albania. After the invasion of Serbia by the Austro-German of marque, makes war on the shipping of a hostile power. To make war on an enemy without this commission, or on the shipping of a nation not specified in it, is piracy. Privateering was abolished by mutual agreement among European nations, except Spain, by the Declaration of Paris in 1856; but the forces, in the latter part of November, United States of America refused to 1915, the remnants of the defeated Ser- sign the treaty, except on condition that bian forces made their last stand here, all private property at sea, not contraon the edge of the great Kossovo Plain, where 300 years before the last of the Serbian Czars had been crushed. The battle lasted four days, the aged King Peter being in the field with his men during the whole period. Finally the Serbian battle formation was smashed, and Pristina was taken by the Teutons, under General Von Mackensen, on Nov. 23, 1915. The population, before the war, was about 10,000.