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Leočina

Coordinates: 42°46′29″N 20°39′35″E / 42.77472°N 20.65972°E / 42.77472; 20.65972
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Leçinë
Village
Leçinë is located in Kosovo
Leçinë
Leçinë
Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°46′29″N 20°39′35″E / 42.77472°N 20.65972°E / 42.77472; 20.65972
Location Kosovo
DistrictMitrovicë
MunicipalitySkënderaj
Elevation
702 m (2,303 ft)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total941
Time zoneUTC+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

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It lies in the hilly region of Drenica.

History

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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]

Demographic history
Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981[4] 1991
Albanians 875
Serbs 119
Total[5] 511 547 652 841 994 1069

References

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  1. ^ 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. ^ a b c d e Antonije Isaković, Kosovsko-metohijski zbornik, SANU, 1990, p. 101: "Леочина"
  3. ^ Ilustrovana Politika, Broj 2054, 30. maj 1998. Dnevnik od 19. do 24. maja Archived 2009-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ 1981 Census, Kosovo Archived 2012-03-17 at the Wayback Machine (Preliminary)
  5. ^ Kosovo censuses 1948-1991

Sources

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  • "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.