The Šarplaninac (Serbian Cyrillic: Шарпланинац; Macedonian: Шарпланинец, romanized: Sharplaninec; Albanian: Qeni i Sharrit), formerly also known as Illyrian Shepherd Dog (Serbian: Илирски овчар, romanized: Ilirski ovčar; Macedonian: Илирски овчар, romanized: Ilirski ovchar; Albanian: Deltari Ilir), is a dog breed of the livestock guardian type. It is named after the Šar Mountains (Šar Planina), a mountain range in the Balkans. In Ottoman times, the dogs of the breed spent the summer in the area of the Šar Mountains and the winter in Thessaly, depending on the needs of the sheep they are used to protect. (Source: Wikipedia.org, CC BY-SA)