Samadrexhë, Vushtrri

Samadrexhë

Samadrexhë (Albanian)
Самодрежа/Samodreža (Serbian)
Samadrexhë Samadrexhë (Albanian); Самодрежа/Samodreža (Serbian);
Village
	Church of St. John the Baptist ruin
	Samadrexhë
	Coordinates: 42°49′24″N 21°02′51″E / 42.8233°N 21.0475°E
Location	Kosovo
District	Mitrovicë
Municipality	Vushtrri
Population (2011)
• Total	1,321
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Samodreža (Serbian Cyrillic: Самодрежа) or Samadrexha (in Albanian), is a village in the Vučitrn municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by a majority of ethnic Albanians, of Muslim faith.

The local Serbian Orthodox church, Church of St. John the Baptist has been used as a dumping ground and public toilet.^[2] According to Serbian myth, the church was used as a praying place for Prince Lazar of Serbia and his knights before the Battle of Kosovo (1389).^[3]^{[dead link]}

Notes

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References

^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
^ Црква у Самодрежи поново претворена у јавни тоалет (in Serbian).
^ Cultural monuments in Serbia: The Church of St. John the Baptist (web-page of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) (in Serbian)

External links

Media related to Samadrexha at Wikimedia Commons

[status-1] Template:Kosovo-note

[2] 2011 Kosovo Census results

[3] Црква у Самодрежи поново претворена у јавни тоалет (in Serbian).

[4] Cultural monuments in Serbia: The Church of St. John the Baptist (web-page of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) (in Serbian)

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