Lipjan

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Lipjan (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Pristina
Municipality : Lipjan
Coordinates : 42 ° 31 '  N , 21 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 42 ° 31 '20 "  N , 21 ° 7' 27"  E
Height : 563  m above sea level A.
Residents : 6,870 (2011)
Telephone code : +383 (0) 38
Postal code : 14000
License plate : 01
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.

Lipjan ( Albanian  also  Lipjani , Serbian Липљан Lipljan ) is a small town in the center of Kosovo and the official seat of the municipality of the same name .

Surname

In Albanian the city is called Lipjan in the indefinite form and Lipjani in the definite form. The name variants Lypjan and Lypjani are also used . The Serbian name is Lipljan (Cyrillic spelling: Липљан). In Turkish the city is called Liplan .

The place name goes back directly to the nearby Roman city of Ulpiana . However, the ul - no o - has evolved, which would be based on the appropriate phonetic rules (such as Ulcinium > Old Serbian Ocinj ), rather the toponym was identified by the Slavs folk etymologically with lipa ( German "Lindenbaum") and adapted to it, because the accent speaks against a direct derivation from lipa .

geography

Lipjan is located in the southern part of the blackbird field , the central plain of Kosovo. The capital Pristina is around thirteen kilometers away in the north and the city of Ferizaj around seventeen kilometers in the south.

An important rail link runs through the municipality , which is regularly served by passenger and freight trains of the Hekurudhat e Kosovës ( Kosovo Railway ). From Fushë Kosova there are further connecting routes u. a. to the capital Pristina .

history

In ancient times, the Roman city of Ulpiana was not far from today's city. The Romans named the Dardanic settlement after the Roman emperor Marcus Ulpius Trajanus , known as Trajan, under whose rule the Roman Empire experienced its greatest expansion. In the first half of the 2nd century the settlement was given Roman city rights as a municipium Ulpianum, res publica Ulpiana.

Archdiocese of Ohrid with its bishopric around 1019.

In 1018 the place is mentioned as Lypenion in a Greek text. The city is assigned to the Bulgarian Archdiocese of Ohrid .

At the beginning of the 14th century, the Serbian King Stefan Uroš II. Milutin (1282-1321) founded the Serbian Orthodox Monastery Gračanica as the seat of the Bishop of Lipljan. In July 2006, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List .

In 1455 the region of Kosovo and with it Lipljan fell under Ottoman rule.

During the Kosovo war was far from the place in Klečka over a period of several days in July 1998 , the massacre Klečka held where 22 Serb civilians allegedly by members of Albanian paramilitary organization KLA were killed. In Sllovi, a village near Lipjan, the Sllovi massacre took place on April 15, 1999 , in which 31 Albanian civilians were murdered. In Staro Gracko , another village, the Staro Gracko massacre took place on July 13, 1999 , in which fourteen Serbian farmers were killed.

population

Lipjan has 6,870 inhabitants (2011 census). Of these, 5864 (85.36%) are Albanians , 518 (7.54%) Roma and Ashkali , 452 (6.58%) Serbs , 8 Bosniaks , 6 Gorans and 3 Turks . 13 people reported a different ethnicity.

City park in Lipjan
Population development
census 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981 1991 2011
Residents 1479 1759 2415 4238 6065 9047 6870

traffic

The highway east of Lipjan

The Autostrada R 6 from Pristina via Lipjan to Babush i Muhaxherëve was opened to traffic on December 31, 2016, with a length of 20 kilometers .

economy

The community is predominantly agriculturally oriented. After the conflict in 1999, most companies were no longer able to function. Many shops and restaurants have been built in the city, but around 80% of the population is still unemployed.

Web links

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

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Petar Skok, M. Deanović, Ljudevit Jonke, Valentin Putanec: Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika . Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1971, ISBN 978-86-407-0064-1 , p. 305 f . ( archive.org [accessed May 7, 2018]).
  2. ^ Collective: Greek Sources about Bulgarian History (GIBI), volume VI ( Bulgarian, Greek ). Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Press, Sofia 1965, p. 44.
  3. ↑ BBC : World: Europe - Serbs highlight 'KLA atrocity' (engl.)
  4. ↑ Ethnic composition of Kosovo 2011. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved January 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Kosovo censuses. In: pop-stat.mashke.org. Retrieved May 6, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Kështu duket Autostrada “Arbën Xhaferi” (photo). In: ekonomiaonline.com. Ekonomia Online, December 31, 2016, accessed August 25, 2017 (Albanian).