Prizren Fortress stands on a hill above Prizren in Kosovo. The area was inhabited from the Bronze Age, around 2000 BCE, and the article says the fort was reconstructed in the 6th century under Emperor Justinian. It likely appears in Procopius as Petrizen. The article names no architect.
Serbian Nemanjić rulers controlled it from 1219 or 1220 to 1371, and Stefan Dušan's court used it for a time. The Ottomans took direct control after 1450 and held it until the First Balkan War in 1912. Much of the modern fortress dates from an 18th-century Ottoman reconstruction.
Excavations found rampart walls with towers, casemates, labyrinth corridors, depots and dwellings. It was declared a Monument of Culture of Exceptional Importance in 1948. It is open to the public.
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