Samodreža
Samodreža (Serbian Cyrillic: Самодрежа) or Samadrexha (in Albanian), is a village in the Vučitrn municipality in Kosovo. It is inhabited by a majority of ethnic Albanians, of Muslim faith.
Samadrexhë | |
|---|---|
 Church of St. John the Baptist ruin | |
  Samadrexhë | |
| Coordinates: 42.8233°N 21.0475°E | |
| Location |  |
| District | Mitrovicë |
| Municipality | Vushtrri |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,321 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
The local Serbian Orthodox church, Church of St. John the Baptist has been used as a dumping ground and public toilet.[2] According to Serbian myth, the church was used as a praying place for Prince Lazar of Serbia and his knights before the Battle of Kosovo (1389).[3]
Notes
- 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.
References
- 2011 Kosovo Census results
- Црква у Самодрежи поново претворена у јавни тоалет (in Serbian).
- Cultural monuments in Serbia: The Church of St. John the Baptist (web-page of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) (in Serbian)
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