Leočina
Leçinë
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Village | |
  Leçinë Location in Kosovo | |
| Coordinates: 42°46′29″N 20°39′35″E / 42.77472°N 20.65972°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo |
| District | Mitrovicë |
| Municipality | Skënderaj |
| Elevation | 702 m (2,303 ft) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 941 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Leočina (Serbian Cyrillic: Леочина, Albanian: Leçinë) is a settlement in the Skenderaj municipality in Kosovo. The rural settlement lies on a cadastral area with the same name, of 784 hectares. It lies 702 m over sea level. The village has an Albanian majority and Serbian minority; in the 1991 census, it had 1069 inhabitants.
Geography[edit]
It lies in the hilly region of Drenica.
History[edit]
The Church of St. John, which lies on the cemetery, was built in the village in the 14th century, and reconstructed in the 16th century.[2] Until latter the half of the 19th century it was known as the Church of St. Nicholas.[2] It was expertly conserved and reconstructed in 1967 and is protected by the Republic of Serbia.[2] There exist remains of another 14th-century church, the so-called "Kaluđerska-" or "Preobraška crkva"[2] and one more church, a total of three.[2]
On the night of May 19, 1998, members of the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army kidnapped Dostan Šmigić (aged 41), a worker in the institute for labour market in Skenderaj, on the Čitak-Leočina road and took him to an unknown location.[3]
| Ethnic group | 1948 | 1953 | 1961 | 1971 | 1981[4] | 1991 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albanians | 875 | |||||
| Serbs | 119 | |||||
| Total[5] | 511 | 547 | 652 | 841 | 994 | 1069 |
References[edit]
- ^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
- ^ a b c d e Antonije Isaković, Kosovsko-metohijski zbornik, SANU, 1990, p. 101: "Леочина"
- ^ Ilustrovana Politika, Broj 2054, 30. maj 1998. Dnevnik od 19. do 24. maja Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 1981 Census, Kosovo Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine (Preliminary)
- ^ Kosovo censuses 1948-1991
Sources[edit]
- "Преобрашка-Калуђерска црква". Споменици културе у Србији.
- "Црква Св. Јована". Споменици културе у Србији.
- Tatomir Vukanović, Drenica: The Second Serbian Holy Mountain, III Edition, Public and University Library "Ivo Andrić" (Priština), Mnemosyne Center, Belgrade 2005; anthropogeographical and ethnological field research conducted by ethnologist Tatomir Vukanović (1907-1997) between 1934 and 1937.
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