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Koha of Pristina again claims that the Serbian shrines in Kosovo and Metohija were built on “ancient Illyrian and Arberian temples” in the Middle Ages.
Koha, for example, claims, referring to the investigation of one Edi Shukri, that the Church of the Mother of God Ljeviska in Prizren was built on the foundations of an earlier church, stating that “King Milutin is known to have appropriated the cathedral church of St. Petka in 1307. Bogorodica Ljeviska) in Prizren, which was the seat of the episcopate of Prizren.
It is added that the Church of Saint Petka was built on a basilica temple from the Roman period of the 5th-6th centuries and on the foundations of an earlier church from the 11th and 12th centuries, and that it acquired its modern form after reconstruction by Serbian King Milutin (1307). changed the name, dedicating the restoration to the saint.
Koha also claims that the Church of Our Lady of Ljeviska has several different names that were used in different periods and languages during the life of the church, and they are: Albanian: Sveta Prenda, Sveta Prena / Šeneprena, Sveta Petka;
Greek church; Serbian: Sveta Petka, Sveta Bogorodica Ljeviska; Turkish: Juma Mosque.
Šukrija claims that the archaeological and architectural research was carried out by researcher S. Nenadović during 1950-1952. year and which determined three construction phases: the early Byzantine basilica, the 13th century Byzantine basilica and the renovated church 1306/07. years.
Koha believes that Shukri’s research confirms that the development of St. Petka’s Church in Prizren had nine phases and that the temple existed even before the Roman period.
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