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One of the oldest mosques in the Balkans.

One of the oldest mosques in the Balkans in the village Mlike, Gora region, Kosovo.
The mosque was built 1238th by Ahmet Aga. Three times burned, and each time was again restored to the same place. This fact proves the memorial plaque that was written in Arabic.
The mosque was built by Muslims before the arrival of the Turks in the Balkans, for the caravans that went to Dubrovnik and other coastal towns.
In the mosque courtyard is a cemetery with tombstones dating from before the Ottoman period.
There are two graves, some of the Syrians, and in this place several times developed turbe, but always falling down (during the day it was built by the villagers and at night turbe just collapsed, and after several such attempts villagers gave up).

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