Pristina, the Capital of Kosovo, is known by historical monographs as an old town evolving from ancient Ulpiana, built mainly of small dense dwellings. The materials used for construction were mainly stone, wood and clay bricks. Today, Pristina is known as a modernbuilt city, though there are still blocks of housing and other buildings built in the early 20th century with massive stone wall or clay brick system with lime mortar bricks.

The possibility of earthquakes in our country, more precisely in Pristina, that theoretically, according to available data (from the Kosovo Seismological Report), can be of great intensity. Also, the number of residents in these buildings is not small, so the human loss and economic consequences can be significant. From the above it can be roughly estimated that this existing category of buildings is more vulnerable to possible earthquake shocks, so the need to assess seismic vulnerability for these buildings is necessary.