Mušutište

Mushtisht

Mushtishtë (Albanian)
Мушутиште/Mušutište (Serbian)
Mushtisht Mushtishtë (Albanian); Мушутиште/Mušutište (Serbian);
Village
	Church of Virgin Hodegetria before destruction
	Mushtisht Location in Kosovo
	Coordinates: 42°17′55″N 20°53′20″E / 42.29861°N 20.88889°E
Location	Kosovo
District	Prizren
Municipality	Suharekë
Population (2011)
• Total	3,394
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)

Mušutište (Serbian Cyrillic: Мушутиште, Albanian: Mushtishtë) is a village in the Suva Reka municipality in Kosovo. It is located to the west of the Nerodimka mountain. It has 10 medieval Serbian Orthodox churches, including the notable Church of Virgin Hodegetria, which was destroyed in 1999.

It has an Albanian majority, and Serbian minority; according to the 1991 census, it had 5016 inhabitants.

History

It was first mentioned in a Serbian charter dating to 1315. In a charter of Emperor Stephen Uroš IV Dušan, dating to 1348, Mušutište, along with the churches of Virgin Hodegetria and St. Symeon (Sv. Simeona), were granted (metochion) to the Saint Archangels Monastery in Prizren.

The mass abduction in Mušutište was a war crime against the Serb civilian population in Mušutište.^[2] The abduction occurred on 12 June 1999, when Albanian soldiers attacked Mušutište and kidnapped 18 Serb civilians.^[2] According to Human Rights Watch, among the victims were twelve men, five women and one five-year-old girl.^[3]

Demographic history
Ethnic group	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981^[4]	1991
Albanians					2980
Serbs					1173
Others					2
Total^[5]	2346	2541	2816	3307	4155	5016

Notes

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References

^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
^ ^a ^b "Српско село Мушутиште на КиМ: Старци бачени у бунаре, манастир порушен" [Serb village Mušutište, in Kosovo: elders were thrown into wells, monastery demolished]. srbijadanas.net (in Serbian). 1 June 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
^ "Kosovo (1998–2000)". zrtveratovasfrj.info (in Serbian). Retrieved 2 September 2017.
^ 1981 Census, Kosovo
^ Kosovo censuses 1948-1991

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[2] 2011 Kosovo Census results

[Ekspres-3] "Српско село Мушутиште на КиМ: Старци бачени у бунаре, манастир порушен" [Serb village Mušutište, in Kosovo: elders were thrown into wells, monastery demolished]. srbijadanas.net (in Serbian). 1 June 2015. Retrieved 2 September 2017.

[Фонд_за_Хуманитарно_право-4] "Kosovo (1998–2000)". zrtveratovasfrj.info (in Serbian). Retrieved 2 September 2017.

[5] 1981 Census, Kosovo

[6] Kosovo censuses 1948-1991

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