When did Prizren become Ottoman?

Chronology

1. 1455
   Became Ottoman

   On 20 June 1455 the army of Mehmed the Conqueror took the city after fighting Đurađ Branković; Prizren became a district capital.

   Sultan: Mehmed II
2. 1689
   Note

   The Habsburg occupation in the winter of 1689–1690 did great damage to the city.

   Sultan: Suleiman II
3. 1912
   Left Ottoman rule

   In the First Balkan War Serbs under General Janković took the city.

   Sultan: Mehmed V

How the total is counted: years of actual Ottoman rule are added up. Temporary occupations shorter than a year (that were reversed) are not subtracted; they appear as notes in the chronology.

In the atlas

On the atlas map the city lies in the region “Kosovo”. Map colours work at region level, so the city's own dates may differ from the region's by a few years.

Source: TDV Encyclopedia of Islam, “PRİZREN” (Turkish); text written for the atlas.