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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Priština.

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Examples

  • PRISTINA (AFP) - The Kosovo government seat was evacuated yesterday after receiving a bomb threat, the first since Pristina authorities proclaimed independence from Serbia in February

    Kathimerini English Edition : Print Edition : 2/7/09 2009

  • Drinking the bar dry at the UN hotel in Pristina for week during training and scaring the Canadian contingent who were trying to keep with us was quite good fun.

    Our Friends From The North « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • While in Pristina, the secretary of state pledged to try to expand the list of some 70 countries that recognize Kosovo.

    US, Slovakia Urge Serbia-Kosovo Dialogue 2010

  • I was one of the first to a car bomb in Pristina and although we had to deal with casualties I was thinking the whole time about another device and sure enough ATO found another 20 pounds of explosives which could have went off at any time.

    Police Response Times – A Serious Debate SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • On the way they would pass over an airfield in Pristina, Kosovo, where the Serbs had carved hangars for their fighters inside a mountain.

    The Last Ace 2009

  • (Soundbite of traffic) Unidentified Man #2: (Singing the call to prayer) POGGIOLI: The Hasan Beg Mosque in Kosovos capital Pristina is brand new and Saudi-financed.

    Radical Islam Uses Balkan Poor To Wield Influence 2010

  • On the way they would pass over an airfield in Pristina, Kosovo, where the Serbs had carved hangars for their fighters inside a mountain.

    The Last Ace 2009

  • If British General Michael Jackson had to shut Clark down in Pristina when he ordered Jackson to keep the Russians from taking the airport -- by force if necessary -- I'm no longer aboard.

    War heroes for President 2008

  • When the longest-serving Yugoslav detainee — a Kosovar — was released, he proposed naming a street in Pristina after Trotsky, because of the latter's principled defense of Albanian minority rights: this street would have been the only one in Europe so named.

    The Old Man 2004

  • When the longest-serving Yugoslav detainee — a Kosovar — was released, he proposed naming a street in Pristina after Trotsky, because of the latter's principled defense of Albanian minority rights: this street would have been the only one in Europe so named.

    The Old Man 2004

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