Prilep (Serbian Cyrillic: Прилеп), or Prejlep (Albanian: Prejlepi, other names: Prilep, Përlep, Perlep, Prilip) or Arrnjet (Albanian: Arrnjeti), is a village situated in western Kosovo[a], close to Gjakova.
The Serbian paramilitary gained control of the contested road connecting Gjakova and Pejë.
[2][3] 12 members of the Yugoslav forces and 4 Albanian militants died during the Serbian offensive.
[4] After the village fell in the hands of the Serbian forces, 4 civilians were killed of which 3 were Albanian and 1 was Egyptian.
[5][better source needed] In the 1485 Ottoman defter of the Sanjak of Scutari the village of Prilep is mentioned to have had 28 tax paying households.