| Laplje Selo | |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Kosovo#Europe |
| Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
| Coordinates: | 42.5967°N 21.1408°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Location |
| Subdivision Type1: | District |
| Subdivision Name1: | Pristina |
| Subdivision Type2: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gračanica |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 892 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Timezone: | CET |
| Utc Offset: | +1 |
| Timezone Dst: | CEST |
| Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Laplje Selo (Serbian: Лапље Село, Albanian: Llapllaselle) is a village in the Gračanica municipality of Kosovo.[2] Laplje Selo was part of the Pristina municipality before the Gračanica municipality was created.
It is a Serb enclave situated south of Čaglavica, and has a supermajority of ethnic Serbs. During the Kosovo War, Serbs were displaced, after more than a decade, sixteen families returned to their village, on February 6, 2010.[3] That number has since increased to just over 20 families.[4]
Various problems, some of them related to anti-Serb sentiment, persist for returnees. There is no running water,[4] and harassment takes place, such as cemetery desecration.[5] [6]
| Ethnic Composition | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Serbs | % | Romani | % | others | % | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 988 | 94.73% | 43 | 4.12% | 12 | 1.15% | 1043 | |||||||
| 1971 | 1011 | 94.31% | 58 | 5.41% | 3 | 0.30% | 1072 | |||||||
| 1981 | 1142 | 94.46% | 58 | 4.80% | 9 | 0.74% | 1209 | |||||||
| 2024 | 1000 | 70.00% | 50 | 2.00% | 23 | 1.66% | 1383 | |||||||