Istok

Istok or Istog (Albanian: Istog; Bosnian: Istok; Serbian: Исток, Istok, Turkish: İstok) is a town and municipality in the Peć district of north-western Kosovo. The town is the administrative capital of the municipality, which includes the town and the surrounding villages.

Name

The name of the town comes from the archaic version of the Bosnian/Serbian word istok (modern version istek), meaning "well, water source" referring to the springs of the Istočka river, a tributary to the White Drin river. The name of the nearby village of Vrela, one of the largest settlements in the municipality, also means "springs", as does the newly proposed Albanian name of the town, Burimi.

History

The Ottoman defter (tax registry; census) of 1582 registered the Peć nahiyah as having 235 villages, of which Suho Grlo (Suvo Grlo) was located within modern Istok municipality. Suvo Grlo had three bigger mahala (neighbourhoods), whose inhabitants were Serbs. One of the neighbourhoods converted to Islam. There were several Orthodox priests in the village.

Istok (magazine)

ИСТОК (meaning "The Source" in Russian) is the title of the online magazine used by the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS/IS) and is released by Al-Hayat Media Center. Islamic State launched this pro-Islamic State (IS) Russian-language magazine.

References

Istok (disambiguation)

Istok is a town in Kosovo.

Istok may also refer to: