Viça, Shtërpcë Explained

Viçë
Settlement Type:Village
Pushpin Map:Kosovo
Pushpin Label Position:top
Pushpin Mapsize:200px
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Kosovo
Coordinates:42.2658°N 21.0806°W
Subdivision Type:Location
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Ferizaj
Subdivision Name2:Shtërpcë
Established Title:First mention
Unit Pref:Imperial
Area Total Km2:0
Population Total:209
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population As Of:2011
Timezone:CET
Utc Offset:+1
Timezone Dst:CEST
Utc Offset Dst:+2
Elevation M:738
Area Code:+381 290
Blank Name:Car plates
Blank Info:05

Viçë or Viča is a settlement in the Shtërpcë municipality in Kosovo. It has 209 inhabitants, of whom 197 are Albanians and 12 are Serbs.

Geography

It is situated in the northeastern part of the Sharr Mountains, of which valley sides of the Viča river, a left tributary of the Lepenac.[2] It lies 2 km north of the Prizren-Štrpce-Doganović regional road.[2]

History

In Medieval Serbia, the župa (province) of Siriniq (first mentioned in a charter of the 13th century, the second time in 1331, in a charter of Emperor Stephen Dušan) existed, covering the whole of modern Štrpce municipality, having two cities, Gradište (in Brezovica) and Zidinac (in Gotovuša), near Viča. Several remains of Byzantine forts exist in the region.[3]

The village is part of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Raška and Prizren.

In 1894, the village had 40 houses, of which 35 were Serb, 4 Albanian, and one Islamized Serb.[4]

According to data from 1938, the village had the following kin families, with their number of houses, traditions (Krsna Slava, patron saint day), and history:[5] [6]

Demographic history
Ethnic group19481953196119711981[7] 1991
Serbs219 (50,23%)
Albanians217 (49,77%)
Total[8] 371402408393436452

Infrastructure

The rural settlement has primarily livestock farming (ratarsko-stočarstvo).[2]

Notes and References

  1. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc2011.htm 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Srboljub Đ Stamenković, Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш, Volume 4, Географски факултет, 2002, p. 324
  3. http://www.rastko.rs/arheologija/delo/13047 Rastko
  4. Branislav Đ Nušić, S Kosova na sinje more: beleške s puta kroz Arbanase 1894. godine, Čigoja štampa, 2005, p. 19
  5. Podaci „Naselja“ (dr. A. Urošević: Šarplaninska Župa Sirinić)
  6. Annuaire, Volume 1, Univerzitet vo Skopje. Prirodno-matematički oddel, Oddel, Jan 1, 1948, p. 174
  7. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-ethnic-loc1981.htm 1981 Census, Kosovo
  8. http://pop-stat.mashke.org/kosovo-census.htm Kosovo censuses 1948-1991