Ranilug

Ranillug / Ranillugu 1 Ranilug / Ранилуг 2
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Basic data
State :	Kosovo 3
District :	Gjilan
Municipality :	Ranilug
Coordinates :	42 ° 30 '  N , 21 ° 36'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 29 '32 "  N , 21 ° 35' 56"  E
Height :	603  m above sea level A.
Residents :	844 (2011)
Telephone code :	+383 (0) 038
License plate :	06
1  Albanian (indefinite / definite form) , 2  Serbian (Latin / Cyrillic spelling) 3  Kosovo's independence is controversial. Serbia continues to regard the country as a Serbian province.

Ranilug ( Serbian - Cyrillic Ранилуг , Albanian  Ranillug or Ranillugu ) is a place in eastern Kosovo and the official seat of the municipality of the same name .

Map of the municipality

history

In the 12th century, the region belonged to the kingdom of the Serbian Prince Stefan Nemanja for a time . From the beginning of the 13th century, the area around Ranilug belonged permanently to the Serbian state of the Nemanjids . After the collapse of the Serbian Empire , different Serbian princes or partial princes ruled the region, including Uglješa, who ruled under the suzerainty of Stefan Lazarević at the beginning of the 15th century . After Uglješa's death, the region fell under the direct rule of Lazarević's successor, Đurađ Branković . In the middle of the 15th century the region was conquered by the Ottomans. In 1912 it belonged again to Serbia , which was later a republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 . Between 2003 and 2006 Ranilug belonged to Serbia and Montenegro . Since 2008 it belongs to the Republic of Kosovo.

population

In the place Ranilug the 2011 census recorded 844 inhabitants.

Population development

Census	1948	1953	1961	1971	1981	1991	2011
Residents	975	1062	1145	973	977	894	844

Web links

Commons : Ranilug  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 21, 2018 .