Landovica

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Landovicë / Landovica 1
Landovica / Ландовица 2
Landovica does not have a coat of arms
Landovica (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Prizren
Municipality : Prizren
Coordinates : 42 ° 16 '  N , 20 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 15 '42 "  N , 20 ° 41' 3"  E
Residents : 1,149 (2011)
License plate : 04
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.

Landovica ( Albanian  also  Landovicë ; Serbian - Cyrillic Ландовица ) is a village in the Kosovar municipality of Prizren .

geography

Landovica is located north of Prizren, around three kilometers from the city. Neighboring localities are in the south Atmaxha , west Tupec , in the north Pirana , northeast Serbica e Poshtme and Serbica e Epërme and southeast Prizren. The White Drin runs northwest of Landovica .

history

In 1844, Joseph Müller mentioned in his book Albania, Rumelia and the Austro-Montenegrin border the village of Lanawice near Prizren with 24 inhabitants, who practiced beekeeping .

During the war in Kosovo , Landovica was attacked on March 26, 1999 by Serbian and Yugoslav armed forces, which fired the village with tanks and artillery . Ismet Gashi's house, where 45 civilians gathered, mostly women, children and the elderly, was shot at with grenades. A grenade struck the interior of the house, killing a 16-year-old. As a result, the civilians left the house in a panic on a meadow to flee into the neighboring forests. Serbian soldiers shot at the crowd, killing twelve civilians, including six children and one pregnant woman; many more were wounded. The shell fire lasted until the afternoon, after which the soldiers broke into various houses and executed five other civilians. The following day, the minaret of the local mosque was blown up and the bodies near Ismet Gashi's house were removed. Of the 18 executed villagers, 14 were later rediscovered in mass graves, and there is still no trace of the other four.

population

According to the 2011 census, Landovica has 1149 inhabitants, of which 1027 (89.38%) Albanians , 110 (9.57%) Ashkali and 1 Bosniak . 7 people gave no answer regarding ethnicity and 4 people have no data on this.

Population development
Census 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 312 383 462 691 1054 1327 1149

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Joseph Müller: Albania, Rumelia and the Austro-Montenegrin border . JS Calv'sche Buchhandlung publishing house, Prague 1844, p. 84 ( google.de ).
  2. ↑ Krivične prijave protiv Božidara Delica eg of the abovementioned zločina u selu Landovica. In: blic.rs. Blic , December 27, 2013, accessed December 17, 2017 (Serbian).
  3. ↑ Popullsia e komunës së Prizrenit sipas vendbanimit, gjinisë dhe etnicitetit 2011. In: rks-gov.net. Statistics Agency of Kosovo, accessed on December 17, 2017 (Albanian).
  4. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 8, 2018 .