The Šar Mountains (Macedonian: Шар Планина, Šar planina, Albanian: Malet e Sharrit, pronounced [ʃâr planǐna]), formerly known as the Shar Dagh (Ottoman Turkish), is a mountain range in the Balkans that extends from southern Kosovo and the northwest of the Republic of Macedonia to northeastern Albania.
In Antiquity, the mountains were known as Scardus, Scodrus, or Scordus (το Σκάρδον ὂρος in Polybius and Ptolemy);. The modern names come from the a...
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The Šar Mountains (Macedonian: Шар Планина, Šar planina, Albanian: Malet e Sharrit, pronounced [ʃâr planǐna]), formerly known as the Shar Dagh (Ottoman Turkish), is a mountain range in the Balkans that extends from southern Kosovo and the northwest of the Republic of Macedonia to northeastern Albania.
In Antiquity, the mountains were known as Scardus, Scodrus, or Scordus (το Σκάρδον ὂρος in Polybius and Ptolemy);. The modern names come from the ancient ones.
Sometimes they are also called Carska planina ("Tzar`s mountain"), as a reference to the capitals (Prizren and Skopje), courts (Nerodimlje, Pauni, Svrčin, etc.) and monasteries (Sveti Arhangeli) of Serbian Tsardom located around them.
The mountain borders extend from the city of Prizren, following the two rivers of the Prizren Lumbardhi and the Lepenac. In the east it passes by the town of Kačanik through the Kačanik Gorge and into Macedonia via the Polog valley. The border passes near the Vardar spring called Vrutok and enters...
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