Gjilani

Gjilan is a town in Kosovo, in the southeast linked with the highway of Pristina, Serbian Border and North Macedonian Border.

Understand
In the Ottoman Defter of 1455, it is said that this settlement had 41 houses, and according to the cadastral de fi cation of 1566–1974, there were 38 houses and 12 single. This place of residence is later mentioned in written documents and in different descriptive directions.

Another opinion says that an Ottoman officer who stayed in this settlement was from an Gjejlan, somewhere in Syria or elsewhere in the Middle East and has baptized with that name, while the most realistic opinion lies in the fact that in Gjilan, around the year 1750 the (Gjinolli Family) was established, which came from Novoberdo, belonging to the Gjinaj tribe, so also this family (Bahti Beg Gjinolli) got its name. It is said that the first settlement of Gjilan was the most northwest in today's Dardania I neighborhood, but since 1830 it included a fire and burned completely. The Gjinolli family then moved the city to the east, in the midst of today's commodity and market house, a neighborhood that also called Begler's Corner. The icons of the city are:


 * Idriz Seferi who died in war for the freedom in 927.
 * Agim Ramadani who died in the last war against Serbian occupation in 1999.
 * Rexhep Mala who died protecting himself in a fight with the Serbian Police in 1984.
 * Nuhi Berisha who also died in the same night with his friend Rexhep Mala in 1984.

By bus

 * From Bujanoc to Prishtina stop at the bus station here. There are also dedicated buses from Pristina bus station (60-70 minutes) cost €2.50 and 2.00 for students.
 * From Ferizaj stops at the bus station (30 min) cost €1.50.
 * From Prizren stops here (100 min) costing €5.

By foot
The mosque and the church (roughly 500 meters from the bus station) can be accessed from Ibrahim Rugova st. through forward to the Mosque Xhamia e Madhe and left at Nena Tereze st. to the Orthodox church. The museum is near post and telecom of the city.

Go next

 * Novo Brdo nearby is a rural area rich with history.
 * Go to Viti by bus or by car, it is only 20 km.
 * Go to Prishtina to the northwest or to Ferizaj to the southwest.
 * Or go northeast to Kamenica or Serbia.