Rastavica

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Rastavica / Rastavicë 1
Rastavica / Раставица 2
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Rastavica (Kosovo)
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Basic data
State : KosovoKosovo Kosovo 3
District : Gjakova
Municipality : Deçan
Coordinates : 42 ° 30 ′  N , 20 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 42 ° 29 ′ 39 ″  N , 20 ° 19 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 498  m above sea level A.
Residents : 1,238 (2011)
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.

Rastavica ( Albanian also Rastavicë , Serbian Rastavica Раставица) is a village in the municipality of Deçan in western Kosovo .

geography

The village is located on the national road 107 and lies between the two large cities of Peja and Gjakova .

population

The village has 1238 inhabitants, all of whom call themselves Albanians , except for six people who call themselves Bosniaks .

history

Rastavica is a Slavic form of the village. The village was conquered by the Ottomans from 1454 and Islamization took place. Rastavica was replaced by the Ottoman Empire in 1910 , but they came to the Kingdom of Montenegro for eight years when the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Kraljevsto Srba, Hrvata i Slovenaca) was founded. Rastavica was a battleground during the Kosovo war . In 2008 the Republic of Kosovo was founded . Today the village is mainly characterized by agriculture. Mayor in 2020 was Rexhë Kadrijaj.


Individual evidence

  1. Agjencia e Statistikave të Kosovës |. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .