Leočina Explained

Leçinë
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Kosovo
Pushpin Label Position:right
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Kosovo
Coordinates:42.7747°N 20.6597°W
Subdivision Type:Location
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Mitrovicë
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Skënderaj
Elevation M:702
Population Total:941
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2011
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2

Leočina (Serbian: 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

It lies in the hilly region of Drenica.

History

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 groupstyle=width:3em 1948style=width:3em 1953style=width:3em 1961style=width:3em 1971style=width:3em 1981[4] style=width:3em 1991
style=font-weight:300 Albanians875
style=font-weight:300 Serbs119
Total[5] 511547652841994 1069

Sources

Notes and References

  1. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc2011.htm 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Antonije Isaković, Kosovsko-metohijski zbornik, SANU, 1990, p. 101: "Леочина"
  3. Ilustrovana Politika, Broj 2054, 30. maj 1998. Dnevnik od 19. do 24. maja
  4. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc1981.htm 1981 Census, Kosovo
  5. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-census.htm Kosovo censuses 1948-1991