Viča, Štrpce

Viča (Serbian Cyrillic: Вича, Albanian: Viçë) is a settlement in the Štrpce municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by ethnic Serbs and Albanians,[2] according to the 1991 census, it had 452 inhabitants.

Viqë

Village
Viqë
Location in Kosovo
Coordinates: 42°15′57″N 21°04′50″E
Location Kosovo[lower-alpha 1]
DistrictFerizaj
MunicipalityShtërpcë
Area
 • Total0 sq mi (0 km2)
Elevation
2,421 ft (738 m)
Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total209
Time zoneUTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+2 (CEST)
Area code(s)+381 290
Car plates05

Geography

It is situated in the northeastern part of the Šar Mountains, of which valley sides of the Viča river, a left tributary of the Lepenac.[3] It lies 2 km north of the Prizren-Štrpce-Doganović regional road.[3]

History

In Medieval Serbia, the župa (province) of Sirinić (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.[4]

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/Albanized, and one Islamized Serb.[5]

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:[6][7]

  • Karadžić (5 houses, Slava of St. Nicholas), indigenous.
  • Velan (12 houses, St. Nicholas), settled from Kabaš, in Metohija, at the end of the 18th century.
  • Lukačić (12 houses, St. Nicholas) settled from Dragobilje, in Metohija, at the end of the 18th century. Part of their kin family, which stayed in Metohija, converted into Islam after their departure.
  • Alilovit (13 houses), an Albanian family, settled from northern Albania in the 19th century, part of the Berisha fis.
Demographic history
Ethnic group 1948 1953 1961 1971 1981[8] 1991
Serbs 219 (50,23%)
Albanians 217 (49,77%)
Total[9] 371 402 408 393 436 452

Infrastructure

The rural settlement has primarily livestock farming (ratarsko-stočarstvo).[3]

Notes
  1. Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.
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References
  1. 2011 Kosovo Census results
  2. Republic of Serbia, Министарствo за Косово и Метохију, Општина Штрпце Archived 2010-03-07 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Srboljub Đ Stamenković, Географска енциклопедија населjа Србије: С-Ш, Volume 4, Географски факултет, 2002, p. 324
  4. Rastko
  5. Branislav Đ Nušić, S Kosova na sinje more: beleške s puta kroz Arbanase 1894. godine, Čigoja štampa, 2005, p. 19
  6. Podaci „Naselja“ (dr. A. Urošević: Šarplaninska Župa Sirinić)
  7. Annuaire, Volume 1, Univerzitet vo Skopje. Prirodno-matematički oddel, Oddel, Jan 1, 1948, p. 174
  8. 1981 Census, Kosovo
  9. Kosovo censuses 1948-1991
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