Geographic Database

Rahovec / Orahovac (Xërxë / Zrze, bei, Ura e Shenjtë / Švanjskog Most, bei, Drin, Fluss)

Canonical URI:
https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/geographie/G015047 (Last Updates: 2017-08-25 , Klar)

province:
country:
Kosovo
ancient find spot:
 
modern find spot:
Rahovec / Orahovac
find spot:
Xërxë / Zrze, bei, Ura e Shenjtë / Švanjskog Most, bei, Drin, Fluss
region:
Gjakovë / Đakovica
comment:
Xërxë (Xerxe,Xërxë,Zirce,Zirze,Zrze,Žirče,Зрзе) ca. 315 m - 783804 -
Kosovo XK » Gjakova 10096859 » Orahovac 2
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Xërxë en albanais et Zrze en serbe latin (en serbe cyrillique : Зрзе) est une localité du Kosovo située dans la commune/municipalité de Rahovec/Orahovac et dans le district de Prizren/Prizren. Selon le recensement kosovar de 2011, elle compte 3 184 habitants[1].
Selon le découpage administratif du Kosovo, la localité fait partie du district de Gjakovë/Đakovica.
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Die Identifizierung ist sicher durch: Arthur Evans, Ancient Illyria, S. 170
About an hour’s distance from Orahovac is the fine old Turkish bridge of Svahan across the White Drin, immediately below a hill known as Gradiš or Gradić, from the bastion-like rocks with which it ist girt. … The blue waters of the Drin emerge at this point from a narrow rocky defile cute by them through an island-like range of white limestone hills … In the neighbouring village of Džeržan I observed, and was able to copy, an interesting Roman sepulchral slab … (fig. 37)
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1: HD043418 : CIL 03, 08239 : Džeržan, taken out of the Drin by the bridge of Svajan.
ILJug 1446.
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Work Status:
completed

1 inscription(s) from this findspot

HD043418: Epitaph from Rahovec / Orahovac (Moesia superior)

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