Metohija, also spelled Metohia (Serbian: Метохија; Albanian: Rrafshi i Dukagjinit ("Dukagjin plateau")) is a large basin at the west of the Serbian province of Kosovo and Metohija, which is named after it.
Metohija is 23 kilometers wide at the widest point and about 60 kilometers long, at average altitude of 550 meters above the sea level. Its principal river is White Drim. It is bordered by mountain ranges Mokra Gora from north and northwest, Prokletije from west, Pastrik from southwest, Sar mountain from south and southeast, and Drenica, which separates it from Kosovo in the east and northeast. The largest cities in Metohija are Istok, Pec, Decani, Djakovica, Orahovac, and Prizren.
In the monasteries of Metohia and Kosovo, old theological and literary writings were transcribed and new ones penned, including the lives of local saints, from ordinary monks and priors to the archbishops and rulers of the house of Nemanjic.
In Metohia alone he recorded over one hundred cases in which the Turkish authorities, police and judiciary tolerated and abetted robbery, bribery, murder, arson, the desecration of churches, the seizure of property and livestock, the rape of women and children, and the harassment of monks and priests.
In its proclamations to the people of Kosovo and Metohia, the CPY blamed the Serbian bourgeoisie for the mistreatment and persecution of the ethnic Albanian population, thus indirectly shifting the blame from the ruling structures of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to the entire Serbian nation.
Feeds |
Contact