Ratkoc | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Kosovo |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Kosovo |
Coordinates: | 42.4094°N 20.5397°W |
Subdivision Type: | Location |
Subdivision Type1: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Gjakova |
Subdivision Name2: | Rahovec |
Population Total: | 3791 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Ratkovac (Serbian: '''Ратковац''') or Drinas (Albanian: '''Drinas'''), is a small village in Kosovo. The village is about 120NaN0, by road, from the city of Gjakova, but only 20NaN0 by geographical distance.
The name Ratkovac means Place of a warrior in serbian, derived from the Serbian word rat, which means war.
The village was mentioned in the Ottoman defter of 1591 with 39 households.[2] According to the Ottoman defter of 1591, the inhabitants anthroponymy were mainly Albanian, Albanian-Slavic along with a few Muslim names.
According to the 2011 Kosovo census, the village had a population of 3,791 inhabitants of which 3,676 were ethnic Albanians.