Hvosno
Sign in to savethumb|240px|The Patriarchal Monastery of Peć in Hvosno, seat of Serbian Orthodox church from the late 13th century up to 1766 (as photographed in 1980) Hvosno (, "thick wood") was a medieval Serbian county () located in the northern part of the Metohija region, in what is today Kosovo. It roughly encompassed the areas of the modern Istog and Peja municipalities. It was surrounded by the counties of Jelci to the north; Budimlja and Plav to the west; Zatrnava to the south; Drškovina and Podrimlje to the east and southeast.
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thumb|240px|The Patriarchal Monastery of Peć in Hvosno, seat of Serbian Orthodox church from the late 13th century up to 1766 (as photographed in 1980) Hvosno (, "thick wood") was a medieval Serbian county () located in the northern part of the Metohija region, in what is today Kosovo. It roughly encompassed the areas of the modern Istog and Peja municipalities. It was surrounded by the counties of Jelci to the north; Budimlja and Plav to the west; Zatrnava to the south; Drškovina and Podrimlje to the east and southeast.
==Name== thumb|right|180px|Old bell of the Monastery of the Mother of God in Hvosno
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