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A mosque in a village called Hisardžik near the town of Prijepolje in the southern Serbian region of Sandžak is the owner of a very valuable artifact - a Qur’an that is 400 years old. 

It was first believed that the Qur’an is 300 years old because the first page has an inscription that say “in the 1116 Hijri year” (1706 in the Gregorian calendar). However a new study conducted by experts of the National Library of Belgrade has shown that the Qur’an is at least 400 years old and might be the oldest in the Balkans. 

With the help of experts from Belgrade the damages on the Qur’an were fixed and afterwards it was displayed at the Prijepolje museum for 10 days and then it was returned to the mosque in Hisardžik where it belongs.